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Oceania > Fiji > Language

FIJIAN LANGUAGE STATS:   All Stats  
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English speakers 4,929 [27th of 52]
    English speakers (per $ GDP) 0.019 per $10,000 of GDP [22nd of 35]
    English speakers (per capita) 0.552 per 100 people [30th of 46]
English status
Also used by many urban Chinese (4,652 in 1976), Rotuman, occasionally by Indians, rarely by Fijians (P. Geraghty 1981). Main language of commerce, education, government. There are also reports of a Fijian Pidgin English. National language. Newspapers, radio programs. Bible 1535-1989.
English-speaking population > As an additional language 14,928 [52nd of 59]
English-speaking population > First language 4,929 [34th of 62]
English-speaking population > Total 19,857 [60th of 99]
Languages
English (official), Fijian (official), Hindustani
Languages of the African Union > Illiteracy > Literacy rate 92.9 [69th of 174]

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SOURCES: Ethnologue; Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population ; Wikipedia: List of countries by English-speaking population; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: Languages of the African Union

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Fiji, Republic of the Fiji Islands

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