Indo-European · ISO 639-3 hif
Fiji Hindi Language फ़िजी हिंदी
Fiji Hindi is an Indo-European language spoken by about 380,000 people in 1 country. It is an official language of Fiji. It is written in the Latin and Devanagari scripts.
Where Fiji Hindi is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Fiji Hindi
Language family
- Indo-European
- Classical Indo-European
- Indo-Iranian
- Indo-Aryan
- Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
- Continental Indo-Aryan
- Midlands Indo-Aryan
- Shaurasenic
- Indo-Aryan Central zone
- Western Hindi
- Hindustani
- Fiji Hindi
Writing system
Latin and Devanagari scripts
Related languages
About the Fiji Hindi language
Fiji Hindi (फ़िजी हिंदी) is spoken by about 380,000 people, which makes it the 505th most spoken language in the world — just behind Dhivehi (380,000) and ahead of Dzongkha (370,000). It belongs to the Indo-European language family and, more precisely, to the Hindustani group within the Indo-Iranian branch.
Where is Fiji Hindi spoken?
Fiji Hindi is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Fiji (390,160).
Fiji Hindi is an official language in 1 country: Fiji.
Writing system and status
Fiji Hindi is written in the Latin and Devanagari scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Hindi, Urdu, Haryanvi, Kanauji, Bundeli, Domari and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 hif.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.