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The Fijian language is spoken as the first language by most indigenous Fijians who make up around 54% of the population. Indo-Fijians make up 37% of the population and speak Fiji-Hindi. English was the sole official language until 1997 and is widely used in government, business, and education as a lingua franca . [ 4 ]
It is an Eastern Hindi and Bihari language, ... was being spoken in Indo-Fijian households. Hindu schools teach the Devanagari script while the Muslim schools teach ...
Bihari languages are a group of the Indo-Aryan languages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Bihari languages are mainly spoken in the Indian states of Bihar , Jharkhand , Uttar Pradesh , and West Bengal , and also in Nepal .
The majority of Indo-Fijians came from northern, northern eastern and southeastern part of India and converse in what is known as Fiji Hindi (also known as 'Fiji Baat'), this language has been constructed from eastern Hindi dialects mixed with some native Fijian and some English loan words, [32] with some minorities speaking Gujarati, and ...
It is also a minority language in Fiji, Mauritius, and South Africa. [9] Fiji Hindi, an official language of Fiji, is a variant of Awadhi and Bhojpuri spoken by the Indo-Fijians. Caribbean Hindustani, another language influenced by Awadhi and Bhojpuri is spoken by the Indo-Caribbean people in Guyana, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. [10]
Between 1926 and 1929 more than 100 Indo-Fijian boys and girls were sent to India to study at various Arya Samaj institutions. In the early thirties, Arya Samaj was the best organised of any Indo-Fijian organisation. It also had as its leader, Vishnu Deo and the only Hindi language newspaper in Fiji, Fiji Samachar.
Thus legalised, Sangam and its community set forth in earnest to develop schools and temples to foster South Indian languages, culture and religion in all parts of Fiji. At present, the Sangam controls 21 Primary and 5 Secondary Colleges with innumerable Temples and Kindergartens spread throughout the country.
Bhawani Dayal High School was established in 1972 and named after Bhawani Dayal Sannyasi (1892–1950), an activist for the rights of Indians and promoter of Vedic religion in South Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The school was renamed Bhawani Dayal Arya College in 1997, the year in which it commemorated 25 years since its founding.