Fiji Hindi facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Fiji Hindi |
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| फ़िजी बात Fiji Baat |
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| 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)e18 | |
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| Writing system | Devanagari, Kaithi, Latin script, Perso-Arabic script, Devanagari Braille, Urdu Braille, English Braille | |
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| Official language in |  Fiji |
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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.
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.
See also
In Spanish: Hindi fiyiano para niños
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