Austronesian · ISO 639-3 fij · fj
Fijian Language Na Vosa Vakaviti
Fijian is an Austronesian language spoken by about 370,000 people in 2 countries. It is an official language of Fiji. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Fijian is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Fijian
About the Fijian language
Fijian (Na Vosa Vakaviti) is spoken by about 370,000 people, which makes it the 507th most spoken language in the world — just behind Dzongkha (370,000) and ahead of Icelandic (350,000). It belongs to the Austronesian language family and, more precisely, to the Viwa-Lomaiviti-East Viti Levu group within the Eastern Malayo-Polynesian branch.
Where is Fijian spoken?
Fijian is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Fiji (371,128) and Norfolk Island (31).
Share of the population that speaks Fijian: Fiji 39% (371,128) and Norfolk Island 1.8% (31).
Fijian is an official language in 1 country: Fiji.
Writing system and status
Fijian is written in the Latin script. 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 Samoan, Maori, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Tahitian, Hawaiian, Tuvalu and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 fj, ISO 639-3 fij.
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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.