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Fijian is an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken in Fiji. It has 350,000 first-language speakers, which is less than half the population of Fiji. Fijian is a VOS language.

Fijian
Spoken in:	Fiji
Region:	Spoken as first language on Vanua Levu, the eastern half of Viti Levu, and on the lesser islands of Kadavu, Nayau, Lakeba, Oneata, Moce, Komo, Namuka, Kabara, Vulaga, Ogea and Vatoa. In the rest of Fiji, spoken as a second language.
Total speakers:	350,000 native speakers, 200,000 second-language users
Ranking:	Not in top 100
Genetic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Central-Eastern Oceanic Remote Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian-Polynesian East Fijian Fijian
Language codes
ISO 639-2	fij
SIL	FJI

1 Pronunciation

There are some consonants that are pronounced significantly differently from English:

"b" is pronounced like "mb" (bamboo)
"c" is pronounced like "th" (this)
"d" is pronounced like "nd" (candy)
"g" is pronounced like "ng" (singer)
"q" is pronounced like "ngg" (finger)

2 External link

Ethnologue on Fijian

Languages of Fiji Malayo-Polynesian languages

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