| Fijian | |
|---|---|
| Vosa Vaka-Viti | |
| Native to | Fiji |
| Ethnicity | Fijians |
Native speakers | (339,210 cited 1996 census)[1] 320,000 second-language users (1991) |
| Dialects | |
| Latin-based | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Fiji |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | fj |
| ISO 639-2 | fij |
| ISO 639-3 | fij |
| Glottolog | fiji1243 |
| Linguasphere | 39-BBA-a |
 Fiji ethnic map (2017 census) green is for Fijian | |
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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". Fijian is a VOS language.[2]
Standard Fijian is based on the Bau dialect, which is an East Fijian language. A pidginized form is used by many Indo-Fijians and Chinese on the islands, while Pidgin Hindustani is used by many rural ethnic Fijians and Chinese in areas dominated by Indo-Fijians.
- ^ Fijian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Dryer, Matthew S.; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Fijian language". World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.