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  2. Fiji Hindi - Wikipedia

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    By this time Fiji Hindi was well established as the lingua franca of Indo-Fijians and the Southern Indian labourers had to learn it to communicate with the more numerous Northern Indians and their European overseers. After the end of the indenture system, Indians who spoke Gujarati and Punjabi arrived in Fiji as free immigrants. A few Indo ...

  3. South Indians in Fiji - Wikipedia

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    Publications like Sangam in Tamil, Pacific Review in English, Jagriti in Hindi, and Na Pacifica in Fijian were published and circulated to give vent to the voice of the Indian community as a whole. Swami Rudrananda was fondly called as "SarkkariSami" by people as he was majorly working for the betterment of sugar cane workers.

  4. Indo-Fijians - Wikipedia

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    A small amount of free immigrants also came from Gujarat and Punjab. [12] Many of the Muslim Indo-Fijians also came from Sindh and various other parts of South Asia. Fiji's British colonial rulers brought South Asian people to the Colony of Fiji as indentured labourers between 1879 and 1916 to work on Fiji's sugar-cane plantations.

  5. Languages of Fiji - Wikipedia

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    Fiji hindi is a local variant developed and influenced from Fijian and other languages, however many people and organisations speak 'Shudh' or standard Hindi from India. Later, approximately 15,000 Indian indentured labourers, who were mainly speakers of Dravidian languages ( Telugu , Tamil and Malayalam ), were brought from South India.

  6. Hinduism in Fiji - Wikipedia

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    Hinduism in Fiji (Fiji Hindi: फिजी में सनातन धर्) is the second-largest religion, and primarily has a following among Indo-Fijians, the descendants of indentured workers brought to Fiji by the British as cheap labour for colonial sugarcane plantations. [1]

  7. Category:Redirects to Fiji Hindi-language terms - Wikipedia

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    The pages in this category are redirects to terms in the Fiji Hindi language.The language code in the |2= parameter below is essential to populate this category. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|{{R from alternative language|1=(the < from > ISO 639 name code)|2=hif}}}} on the second new line (skip a line) after #REDIRECT [[Target page name]].

  8. Fiji - Wikipedia

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    Fiji has three official languages under the 1997 constitution (and not revoked by the 2013 Constitution): English, Fijian (iTaukei), and Hindi. (Fiji Hindi is a variety of Hindi common in Fiji.) Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji. It has 350,000 native speakers, and another 200,000 speak it as a ...

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    Hindi (Devanagari script) Kannada (Kannada script) Konkani (Devanagari script) Malayalam (Malayalam script) Marathi (Devanagari script) Nepali (Devanagari script) Odia (Odia script) Punjabi (Gurmukhi script) Sanskrit (Devanagari script) Tamil (Tamil script) Telugu (Telugu script) Indonesia: Jakarta: Indonesia: Jakarta: Indonesian: Iran: Tehran ...