Fiji Hindi

Fiji Hindi or Fiji Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language which is the mother tongue of 313,000 people of Indian and Pakistani origin in Fiji.

Fiji Hindi
फ़िजी बात Fiji Baat
Native to	Fiji, with significant minorities within Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Ethnicity	Indo-Fijians and the Indo-Fijian diaspora
Native speakers	(460,000 cited 1991)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central Zone (Hindi) Awadhi Fiji Hindi
Writing system	Devanagari, Kaithi, Latin script, Perso-Arabic script, Devanagari Braille, Urdu Braille, English Braille
Signed forms	Signed Hindi
Official status
Official language in	Fiji
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hif
Glottolog	fiji1242

This language is very different from the standard Hindi spoken in India and the relationship between the two languages are similar to those between Dutch and Afrikaans. The language is composed of the Eastern Hindi dialects (Bhojpuri and Awadhi) with numerous English and Fijian words. It is spoken with a Pacific twang.

In recent times, due to the political upheaval in Fiji, large numbers of Fiji Indians have migrated to Australia, New Zealand, United States and Canada, taking the Fiji Hindi language with them.

Other websites

• Ethnologue - Fiji Hindi