WesternFijian, also known as Wayan: 212 is an Oceanic language spoken in Fiji by about 57,000 people. It is distinct from Eastern Fijian (also known...
Fiji has three official languages under the 1997 constitution (and not revoked by the 2013 Constitution): English, Fijian and Fiji Hindi. The Fijian language...
as the "national language". Fijian is a VOS language. Standard Fijian is based on the speech of Bau, which is an East Fijianlanguage. A pidginized form...
Indigenous Fijians in areas of Fiji where there are large Indo-Fijian communities. A pidgin form of the language is used by rural ethnic Fijians, as well...
The culture of Fiji is a tapestry of native Fijian, Indian, European, Chinese, and other nationalities. Culture polity traditions, language, food costume...
largest ethnic backgrounds that Fijians identified with were Indian/Indo-Fijian and Indigenous Fijian origins. Fijians were also the fifth largest Pacific...
a minority language in Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. Fiji Hindi, an official language of Fiji, is a variant...
Western Fijianlanguages Eastern Central Pacific linkage Eastern Fijianlanguages Polynesian languages Roger Blench (2014) argues that many languages conventionally...
which was supported by most leaders of the indigenous Fijian and Indo-Fijian communities. Fiji was re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations. The new...
widespread throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, including major languages such as Fijian (Fiji), Hiligaynon, Bikol, Ilocano, Cebuano, Tagalog (Philippines)...
Fijian tradition and ceremony is a living way of life that has remained intact for millennia, evolving as the Fijian nation has modernised over time, with...
and enjoys relative autonomy as a Fijian dependency. Fiji Television reported on 21 September 2006 that the Fiji Islands Maritime and Safety Administration...
the Indo-Fijian community, which by that time had come to outnumber the native Fijian population. Fearing Indo-Fijian domination, many Fijian chiefs saw...
Rotuman language distance it from Polynesian neighbours with it aligning it more closely with Melanesian (particularly WesternFijian) languages. "2018...
Lutunasobasoba.) Say it in Fijian, An Entertaining Introduction to the Language of Fiji, by Albert James Schütz, 1972. Lonely: Planet Fijian Phrasebook, by Paul...
official in Fiji as Fiji Baat. There are demands for including Bhojpuri in the 8th schedule of Indian constitution. In Bihar, Hindi is the language used for...
the language with the West Fijianlanguages in a West Fijian–Rotuman branch of the Central Pacific subgroup of Oceanic languages. The Rotuman language has...
The Western Pahari languages are a group of Northern Indo-Aryan languages spoken in Northern India, primarily in the state of Himachal Pradesh and Chenab...
but never subdued westernFiji. Cakobau controlled most of the eastern parts of the Fijian Islands and declared himself King of Fiji (Self-proclaimed Tui...
District A language influenced by Awadhi (as well as other languages) is also spoken as a lingua franca for Indians in Fiji and is referred to as Fijian Hindi...
Malayo-Polynesian Melanesian languages (including Fijian) Micronesian languages Polynesian languages It is now known that the Melanesian languages do not form a genealogical...
Global Information