Fiji Hindi
Sign in to savelanguage spoken by most Fijian citizens of Indian descent
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Fiji Hindi is a language spoken by most Fijian citizens of Indian descent, representing an important part of the cultural identity of this community in the Pacific Islands. It matters because it preserves the linguistic heritage of Indo-Fijians and serves as a key means of communication within families and communities that have made Fiji their home for generations.
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Fiji Hindi (Devanagari: फ़िजी हिंदी) is a vernacular Eastern Hindi language spoken by Indo-Fijians. It is the mother tongue and indigenous language of Indo-Fijians. It is also looked at as a creole or koine language based on Awadhi that has also been subject to considerable influence by other Eastern Hindi languages such as Bagheli and Chhattisgarhi, by Eastern Indo-Aryan languages such as Bhojpuri and Maithili, and has also been partially influenced by many other languages such as English, iTaukei, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Assamese, Punjabi, Standard Hindi, Standard Urdu, Marathi, Gujarati, Arabic, and Malayalam. Many words unique to Fiji Hindi have been created to cater for the new environment that Indo-Fijians now live in. First-generation Indo-Fijians in Fiji, who used the language as a lingua franca in Fiji, referred to it as Fiji Baat, "Fiji talk".
While Fiji Hindi is mutually intelligible with various Eastern Hindi languages, it is also closely related to other variants of Hindustani spoken in the Caribbean (such as Sarnami) and Africa (especially in the countries of Mauritius and South Africa).
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Awadhi languageCentral Indo-Aryan languagesFusional languagesIndian diaspora in FijiLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 18Language articles with Linguasphere codeLanguage articles with old Ethnologue 18 speaker dataLanguage articles without speaker estimateLanguages of FijiLanguages of the Indian diasporaLanguages without ISO 639-3 codeLanguages written in Devanagari