Pidgin Hindustani

Fiji Hindi (Devanagari: फ़िजी हिंदी) is a vernacular Eastern Hindi language spoken by Indo-Fijians. It is the mother tongue and indigenous language of Indo-Fijians. It is also looked at as a creole or koine language Many words unique to Fiji Hindi have been created to cater for the new environment that Indo-Fijians now live in. First-generation Indo-Fijians in Fiji, who used the language as a lingua franca in Fiji, referred to it as Fiji Baat, "Fiji talk". While Fiji Hindi is mutually intelligible with various Eastern Hindi languages, it is also closely related to other variants of Hindustani spoken in the Caribbean (such as Sarnami) and Africa (especially in the countries of Mauritius and South Africa). HistoryThese are the percentages of each language and dialect spoken by indentured labourers who came to Fiji. Initially, the majority of indentured labourers came to Fiji from Bengal and districts of central and eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, while a small percentage hailed from North-West Frontier and Madras Presidency places that are now Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Odisha and Telangana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Over time,