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A Fijian speaker, recorded in Fiji.. Fijian (Na vosa vaka-Viti) is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken by some 350,000–450,000 ethnic Fijians as a native language.
Hindi is an official language in Fiji. In the 1997 Constitution, it was referred to as "Hindustani", [6] but in the 2013 Constitution of Fiji, it is simply called "Hindi". [7] Fiji Hindi, also known as Fijian Baat or Fijian Hindustani, is the language spoken by most Fijian citizens of Indian descent.
Over time, a distinct Indo-Aryan language with an Eastern Hindi substratum developed in Fiji, combining elements of the Hindi languages spoken in these areas with some native Fijian and English. The development of Fiji Hindi was accelerated by the need for labourers speaking different languages to work together and by the practice of leaving ...
The first Fijian translation of the Kural was made by Samuel L. Berwick who translated it in 1964. Swami Rudrananda , who established the Ramakrishna Mission in Fiji in 1953, requested Berwick, then editor of the Fijian section of his newspaper Pacific Review ( Vakalewa ni Pasifika ) published from Nadi , to work on the translation in 1962 to ...
Paul Geraghty, Lonely Planet Fijian Phrasebook, 1994, 182 pp. Rusiate T. Komaitai, Albert J. Schütz, Contributor Rusiate T Komaitai, Spoken Fijian: An Intensive Course in Bauan Fijian, with Grammatical Notes and Glossary, 1971, University of Hawaii Press, Foreign Language / Dictionaries / Phrase Books, ISBN 0-87022-746-7.
Fijian-English Dictionary. Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty. ISBN 978-982-98047-1-6. Spoken Fijian: An Intensive Course in Bauan Fijian, with Grammatical Notes and Glossary By Rusiate T. Komaitai, Albert J. Schütz, Contributor Rusiate T Komaitai, Published 1971, Univ of Hawaii Pr, Foreign Language / Dictionaries / Phrase Books, ISBN 0-87022-746-7 used ...
It is a dialect that is less understood by native Fijian speakers due to different sounds and spelling of common words.(Becker E. Anne, 1995) [1] For example, the Fijian greeting word "bula" is "cola" in Nadroga/Navosa dialect.
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