Fijian

Fijian
	Na Vosa Vakaviti
Native to	Fiji
Region	Fiji
Native speakers	unknown (339 210 as a Primarii Laenghwij cited 1996); 320 000 as a Sekand Laenghwij (1991)
Laenghwij family	Austronesian Malayo- Polynesian Oceanic Centrel Pacific Iist Fijian Fijian; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Bauan
Laenghwij codes
ISO 639-3	fij

Fijian (Fijian: Na Vosa Vakaviti) esa Austronesian laenghwij o' t' Malayo-Polynesian family tal'n b' soom 350 000–450 000 etnik Fijians as a natiw laenghwij. T' 2013 Konstitushun maeked Fijian as an ofishol laenghwij o' Fiji, wit' Inglish an Hindi tuu, an deir es diskushun abaut establishin et as t' "nashunal laenghwij", alla Inglish an Hindi wil stey ofishol. Fijian esa VOS laenghwij.^[2]

Stendard Fijian es bais'd a' t' talin' o' Bau, wich esa Iist Fijian laenghwij. A pidjiniz'd form es used b' mani Indo-Fijians an etnik Chinese a' dem ailen, whiil Pidgin Hindustani es used b' mani rural etnik Fijians.

Fijian

Fonolojii

T' consonant fonemes o' Fijian es as shown i' t' followin tabul:

Labial	Coronal	Palatal	Welar
Naysal		m	n	ŋ
Plosiv	voiceless	(p)	t	k
Plosiv	prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿɡ
Fricativ	voiceless	(f)	s	(x)
Fricativ	voiced	β	ð
Trill	plain	r
Trill	prenasalized	ᶯɖʳ
Aaproksimant		w	l	j	(h)

T' consonent writ'n ⟨dr⟩ haufs bin describ'd as a prenasaliz'd trill [nr] o trill'd fricativ [ndr]. Tho, ets onli rarlii pronouns'd wit' a trill'd reliis; t' primarii feachure distinguishin et f' ⟨d⟩ es tat ets postalveolar, [ɳɖ], insteado' dental/alveolar.^[3]

T' sowns [p] an [f] okkur onli i' loanwords f' otha laenghwijs. T' sowns [x] an [h] onli okkur f' talas f' serten rejins o' t' kuntrii.

Notis t' differens i' place o' articulayshun b'twiin t' voic'd-voiceles fricativ payrs: bilabial [β] vs. labiodental [f], an dental [ð] vs. alveolar [s].

Dem wowel fonemes es:

Dem Monoftongs
Frunt		Sentril		Bak
short	lon	short	lon	short	lon
Klos	i	iː	u	uː
Mid	e	eː	o	oː
Open	a	aː

Dem Fallin diftong
Sekand komponent
/i/	/u/
Furst komponent	/e/	ei̯	eu̯
	/o/	oi̯	ou̯
	/a/	ai̯	au̯

Notes

↑ Fijian reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
↑ [1] WALS – Fijian
↑ Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8. p 122, 131. The authors use the transcription ⟨nḍ⟩, where the sub-dot is their convention for a postalveolar stop that is not prototypically retroflex.

[Ethnologue-1] Fijian reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)

[2] [1] WALS – Fijian

[3] Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-19814-8. p 122, 131. The authors use the transcription ⟨nḍ⟩, where the sub-dot is their convention for a postalveolar stop that is not prototypically retroflex.

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