Fijian language

Fijian
Fijian
Vosa Vaka-Viti
Native to	Fiji
Ethnicity	Fijians
Native speakers	(339,210 cited 1996 census); 320,000 second-language users (1991)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian – Polynesian East Fijian Fijian; ; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Pidgin Fijian;
Writing system	Latin-based
Official status
Official language in	Fiji
Language codes
ISO 639-1	fj
ISO 639-2	fij
ISO 639-3	fij
Glottolog	fiji1243
Linguasphere	39-BBA-a

Fijian (Na vosa vaka-Viti) is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken by some 350,000–450,000 ethnic Fijians as a native language. The 2013 Constitution established Fijian as an official language of Fiji, along with English and Fiji Hindi and there is discussion about establishing it as the "national language". Fijian is a VOS language.

Standard Fijian is based on the Bau dialect, which is an East Fijian language. A pidginized form is used by many Indo-Fijians and Chinese on the islands, while Pidgin Hindustani is used by many rural ethnic Fijians and Chinese in areas dominated by Indo-Fijians.

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