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Preferred term

fijFijian  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji. It has 450,000 first-language speakers, which is less than half the population of Fiji, but another 200,000 speak it as a second language. The 1997 Constitution established Fijian as an official language of Fiji, along with English and Hindustani , and there is discussion about establishing it as the "national language", though English and Hindustani would remain official. Fijian is a VOS language. It has prepositions.

Entry terms

  • Fijian language

ISO 639-1 code

  • fj

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • fij

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • fij

ISO 639-3 code

  • fij

Notation

  • fij

In other languages

  • fidjien

    French

  • Fidjien
  • Fidschi

    German

  • Fidschianisch
  • figiano

    Italian

  • Lingua figiana
  • Portuguese

  • Língua fidjiana
  • fidjiano

    Spanish

  • Idioma fiyiano

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/fij

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