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He analysed Fiji Hindi and concluded that it was a unique language with its own distinct grammar, rather than "broken Hindi", as it had been previously referred to. Moag documented his findings and wrote lessons using the Fijian Hindi dialect in the book, Fiji Hindi: a basic course and reference grammar (1977).
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.
Outside Asia, the Awadhi language (an Eastern Hindi dialect) with influence from Bhojpuri, Bihari languages, Fijian and English is spoken in Fiji. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] It is an official language in Fiji as per the 1997 Constitution of Fiji, [ 85 ] where it referred to it as "Hindustani"; however, in the 2013 Constitution of Fiji , it is simply called ...
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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. The 2013 Constitution established Fijian as an official language of Fiji, along with English and Fiji Hindi and there is discussion about establishing it as the "national language".
In 2019, she was appointed interim director of the Fiji Higher Education Commission. [4] Shameem speaks Fiji Hindi and is active in preserving and revitalisting the language. [2] In 2019, she published a book of poetry in Fiji Hindi, and is the only person to have written and published poetry in this language. [3]
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 ...
The National Language Debate in Fiji concerns the status of the country's three official languages: English, Fijian, and Hindustani (the name used in the 1997 constitution for Fiji Hindi). From colonial times , the sole official language was English, but the 1997 Constitution gave equal status for the first time to Fijian and Hindustani on the ...