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Where is Fiji Hindi spoken?

Fiji Hindi is an Indo-European language, spoken in Fiji, Australia and the United States. It is marked on the map by a ringed point.

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Where Fiji Hindi is spoken

Fiji Hindi is spoken in 3 countries: Fiji, Australia and the United States. The table gives the share of each country’s people who speak it, from Unicode CLDR, where CLDR has a figure.

CountryShare of populationEstimated speakers
Fiji41%390,161
AustraliaNot givenNot given
United StatesNot givenNot given

Estimated speakers are the CLDR percentage applied to CLDR’s own population figure for the country, so they are rough. A country without a figure may still have speakers: it is listed because the language area, or Glottolog’s record, reaches it.

Fiji Hindi has no area on the map because no open area map covers it. The ringed point is the position Glottolog gives for the language.

How many people speak Fiji Hindi?

Wikidata gives about 380,000 speakers (Ethnologue, 1991). These figures are approximate: they come from different sources, years and definitions of a speaker.

Status: Not endangered. Glottolog lists it as not endangered: it is still being passed on to children.

Where Fiji Hindi sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Fiji Hindi as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Indo-Iranian
  4. Indo-Aryan
  5. Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan
  6. Continental Indo-Aryan
  7. Midlands Indo-Aryan
  8. Shaurasenic
  9. Indo-Aryan Central zone
  10. Western Hindi
  11. Hindustani
  12. Fiji Hindi

Related languages

Other languages in the Hindustani group:

More about Fiji Hindi

Codes: ISO 639-3 hif, Glottolog fiji1242. Glottolog macroarea: Papunesia.

Questions about Fiji Hindi

Where is Fiji Hindi spoken?

Fiji Hindi is spoken in Fiji, Australia and the United States. Unicode CLDR puts it at 41% of the population of Fiji, which is about 390,161 people. On the map it is shown as a single point, because no open area map covers it.

How many people speak Fiji Hindi?

Wikidata gives about 380,000 speakers (Ethnologue, 1991). Speaker numbers are approximate and differ between sources: counting who is a speaker, and whether to include second-language speakers, is not settled.

Which language family is Fiji Hindi in?

Glottolog places Fiji Hindi in the Indo-European family, in the branch Classical Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan, Middle-Modern Indo-Aryan, Continental Indo-Aryan, Midlands Indo-Aryan, Shaurasenic, Indo-Aryan Central zone, Western Hindi and Hindustani.

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