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Fiji Hindi


Name	Fiji Hindi
Nativename	Fiji Baat
Familycolor	Indo-European
States	Fiji, with significant minorities in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada
Speakers	460,000
Fam2	Indo-Iranian
Fam3	Indo-Aryan
Fam4	Central zone
Fam5	East Central zone
Fam6	Awadhi
Script	Latin, Devanagari script
Nation	\|agency=
Iso3	hif
Mapcaption	Countries where Fijian Hindi is spoken
Notice	Indic

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Fiji Hindi, also known as Fijian Hindi or Fijian Hindustani, is the language spoken by most Fijian citizens of Indian descent. It is derived mainly from the Awadhi and Bhojpuri varieties of Hindi. It has also borrowed a large number of words from Fijian and English. The relation between Fiji Hindi and Standard Hindi is similar to the relation between Afrikaans and Dutch. A large number of words, unique to Fiji Hindi, have been created to cater for the new environment that Fiji Indians now live in. First-generation Fiji Indians, who used the language as a lingua franca in Fiji, referred to it as Fiji Baat (Fiji talk).

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