Fiji Baat

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Fiji Baat is a colloquial name for Fiji Hindi, an Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily by the Indo-Fijian community in Fiji.

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Fiji Baat canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language
New Indo-Aryan language
language
alternateName Fiji Hindi
surface form: Fiji Bhasha

Fiji Hindi
Fiji Hindi
surface form: Fiji Hindustani
closelyRelatedTo Sarnami Hindustani
surface form: Caribbean Hindustani

Bhojpuri
surface form: Mauritian Bhojpuri
derivedFrom Awadhi
Bhojpuri
developedAmong Indian indentured labourers in Fiji
developedInContext indentured labour system in Fiji
developedInPeriod late 19th century
diasporaUse Indo-Fijian diaspora in Australia
Indo-Fijian diaspora in Canada
Indo-Fijian diaspora in New Zealand
Indo-Fijian diaspora in the United Kingdom
Indo-Fijians
surface form: Indo-Fijian diaspora in the United States
hasEthnologueName Fiji Hindi
hasGlottocode fiji1243
hasISO639-3Code hif
hasLexicalFeature extensive borrowing from English
loanwords from Fijian
hasPhonologicalFeature simplified consonant clusters compared to Standard Hindi
hasSociolinguisticStatus major community language of Indo-Fijians
often considered a separate language from Standard Hindi
hasWritingSystem Devanagari script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script
influencedBy English
Fijian language
Hindi
surface form: Standard Hindi

Urdu language
surface form: Urdu

other Eastern Hindi dialects
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
notOfficialLanguageOf Fiji
primaryCommunity Indo-Fijians
region Vanua Levu
Viti Levu
other inhabited islands of Fiji
spokenIn Fiji
subfamilyOf Eastern Hindi languages
usedAs lingua franca among Indo-Fijians
usedIn Indo-Fijian films and videos
Indo-Fijian popular music
Indo-Fijian radio broadcasting
everyday communication in Indo-Fijian communities

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Fiji Hindi alternativeName Fiji Baat