Fiji Hindi

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Fiji Hindi
Fiji Baat • Fiji Hindustani
फ़िजी हिंदी (Devanagari script) 𑂣𑂺𑂱𑂔𑂲⸱𑂯𑂱𑂁𑂠𑂲 (Kaithi script) فجی ہندی (Perso-Arabic script)
Fiji Hindi written in the Latin, Devanagari, Perso-Arabic, and Kaithi scripts
Native to	Fiji
Ethnicity	Indo-Fijians and the Indo-Fijian diaspora
Native speakers	(380,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Central and Eastern Eastern Hindi and Bihari Awadhi and Bhojpuri Fiji Hindi
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Indo-Iranian Proto-Indo-Aryan Vedic Sanskrit Classical Sanskrit Ardhamagadhi and Magadhi Prakrit[a] Ardhamagadhi and Magadhan Apabhraṃśa[b] Abahattha[c] Awadhi and Bhojpuri
Dialects	Pidgin Hindustani
Writing system	Devanagari[d] Latin Kaithi Perso-Arabic[e]
Official status
Official language in	Fiji
Language codes
ISO 639-3	hif
Glottolog	fiji1242
Linguasphere	59-AAF-raf

Fiji Hindi (Devanagari: फ़िजी हिंदी; Kaithi: 𑂣𑂺𑂱𑂔𑂲⸱𑂯𑂱𑂁𑂠𑂲; Perso-Arabic: فجی ہندی) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Indo-Fijians.^[1] It is an Eastern Hindi and Bihari language, considered to be a koiné language based on Awadhi that has also been subject to considerable influence by Bhojpuri, other Eastern Hindi and Bihari dialects, and Standard Hindi-Urdu. It has also borrowed some vocabulary from English, Fijian, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, and Malayalam. Many words unique to Fiji Hindi have been created to cater for the new environment that Indo-Fijians now live in.^[2] First-generation Indians in Fiji, who used the language as a lingua franca in Fiji, referred to it as Fiji Baat, "Fiji talk". It is closely related to Caribbean Hindustani and the Bhojpuri-Hindustani spoken in Mauritius and South Africa. It is largely mutually intelligible with the languages of Awadhi and Bhojpuri, as well as with the Bihari languages of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhesh, Koshi and Lumbini, and the dialects of Eastern Hindi of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Lumbini, but differs in phonetics and vocabulary with Modern Standard Hindi and Urdu.^{[citation needed]}

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