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Language/Dialect Number Percentage Bihari languages (Mainly Bhojpuri as well as Maithili and Magahi) 17,868: 39.3% Eastern Hindi dialects (Mainly Awadhi as well as Bagheli and Chhattisgarhi) 16,871: 37.1% Western Hindi dialects (Hindustani, Bundeli, Braj Bhasha, Haryanvi, etc.) 6,903: 15.2% Rajasthani dialects : 1,111: 2.4%
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.
Bhojpuri is also official in Fiji as Fiji Hindi. There are demands for including Bhojpuri in the 8th schedule of Indian constitution. In Bihar, Hindi is the language used for educational and official matters. [8] These languages were legally absorbed under the overarching label Hindi in the 1961 Census. Such state and national politics are ...
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 ...
Fiji Hindi is an Eastern Hindi-Bihari lingua-franca that developed among Indo-Fijians. Haflong Hindi is a trade language of the areas adjacent to Haflong in Assam; Domari and Romani are both central Indo-Aryan languages, although deriving from separate origins within the family. [5]
It is also a minority language in Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa (Natal), Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago. [11] [12] Fiji Hindi, an official language of Fiji, is a variant of Awadhi and Bhojpuri spoken by the Indo-Fijians. Caribbean Hindustani, another variant of Bhojpuri is spoken by the Indo-Caribbean people. [15]
(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 second language. There are many dialects of the language across the Fiji Islands, which may be classified in two major branches—eastern and ...
The major ones are Bhojpuri (24.86%), Maithili (12.55%) and Magahi (10.87%) [88] [89] Angika and Bajjika, two other Bihari languages, are classified under other dialects of Hindi in the census. Maithili is a recognised regional language of India under the Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of India. Proponents have called for Bhojpuri, Magahi ...