What is Fiji Hindi?
{{Infobox language |name=Fiji Hindi |nativename= {{lang|hif|फ़िजी बात}}<br>''Fiji Baat'' |states=[[Fiji]], with significant minorities within [[Canada]], [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United States]]. |ethnicity= [[Indo-Fijian]]s and the [[Fijian Indian diaspora|Indo-Fijian diaspora]] |speakers= 460,000 |date=1991 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Indo-European |fam2=[[Indo-Iranian languages|Indo-Iranian]] |fam3=[[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan]] |fam4=[[Central Zone (Hindi)]] |fam5=[[Awadhi]] |script=[[Devanagari]], [[Kaithi]], [[Latin script]], [[Perso-Arabic script]], [[Devanagari Braille]], [[Urdu Braille]], [[English Braille]] |nation={{FIJ}} |iso3=hif |notice=Indo-Aryan |sign=[[Indian Signing System|Signed Hindi]] |glotto=fiji1242 |glottorefname=Fiji Hindi }} '''Fiji Hindi''' or '''Fiji Urdu''' is an [[Indo-Aryan languages|Indo-Aryan language]] which is the mother tongue of 313,000 people of [[India]]n and [[Pakistan]]i origin in [[Fiji]]. This language is very different from the standard [[Hindi]] spoken in [[India]] and the relationship between the two languages are similar to those between [[Dutch language|Dutch]] and Afrikaans. The language is composed of the Eastern Hindi dialects (Bhojpuri and Awadhi) with numerous English and Fijian words. It is spoken with a Pacific twang. In recent times, due to the political upheaval in Fiji, large numbers of Fiji Indians have migrated to [[Australia]], [[New Zealand]], [[United States]] and [[Canada]], taking the Fiji Hindi language with them. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=hif Ethnologue - Fiji Hindi] {{stub}} {{InterWiki|code=hif}} {{Incubator|hif|Wiktionary}} [[Category:Hindi]] [[Category:Urdu dialects]] [[Category:Urdu language]] [[Category:Languages of Fiji]]