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Where is Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian spoken?

Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian is an Austronesian language, spoken in Fiji. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian is spoken

Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian is spoken in one country: Fiji.

Country
Fiji

On the map, Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian is drawn as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007. The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18613195), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian.

How many people speak Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian?

Wikidata gives about 5,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). 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 Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Austronesian
  2. Malayo-Polynesian
  3. Eastern Malayo-Polynesian
  4. Oceanic
  5. Central Pacific linkage
  6. Western Fijian
  7. Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian

Related languages

Other languages in the Western Fijian group:

More about Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian

Codes: ISO 639-3 wyy, Glottolog west2519. Glottolog macroarea: Papunesia.

Questions about Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian

Where is Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian spoken?

Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian is spoken in Fiji. On the map it is shown as an area from Asher and Moseley 2007.

How many people speak Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian?

Wikidata gives about 5,000 speakers (Wikidata, with no source given). 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 Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian in?

Glottolog places Western Viti Levu-Yasawas Fijian in the Austronesian family, in the branch Malayo-Polynesian, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian, Oceanic, Central Pacific linkage and Western Fijian.

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