Fiji Hindi

Fiji Hindi (Devanagari script: फ़िजी हिंदी) is a vernacular Indo-Aryan language. It is the mother tongue and indigenous language of Indo-Fijians. It is a koine language based on Awadhi and Bhojpuri that has also been subject to considerable influence by other Eastern Hindi languages such as Bagheli and Chhattisgarhi, by other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages such as Magahi and Maithili, and has also been partially influenced by many other languages such as English, iTaukei, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Punjabi, Standard Hindi, Standard Urdu, and Gujarati. Many words unique to Fiji Hindi have been created to cater for the new environment that Indo-Fijians now live in. First-generation Indo-Fijians in Fiji, who used the language as a lingua franca in Fiji, referred to it as Fiji Baat, "Fiji talk".

While Fiji Hindi is mutually intelligible with various Eastern Hindi languages, it is also closely related to other variants of Hindustani spoken in the Caribbean (such as Sarnami) and Africa (especially in the countries of Mauritius and South Africa).

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