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Fijian alphabet
;The B HundreFive hundred D E F G I personally J 1000 Fifty M North O P Q R S T U 5 W Y

;the b hundre500 d e f g we j one thousand 50 m north o p letter q r s t u five w y

Pronunciation
There come a select few consonants that are pronounced significantly otherwise from either English: "b" is pronounced [mb] when around [bamboo]; "c" is pronounced [ð] rather "th" inside [this]; "d" is pronounced [nd] when within [candy]; "dr" is pronounced [nr] (by using the trilled ar); "g" is pronounced [ŋ] such as "ng" within [singer]; "q" is pronounced [ŋg] such as "ng" around [finger]; "v" is pronounced bilabially, .

Vowels can be hanker or even short, however this distinction is non indicated within normal writing.

Word accent lessens witharound any hanker vowel or even even diphthong, or a next-to-last vowel in an accent unit, which can be either deuce or iii moras in length: tû 'could have', kau 'wood', góne 'infant', tagáne 'male'. Withinside yearn words, a survive accent unit is emphasized; a accented vowels in preceding units come perceived when getting secondary accent: itùku.túku 'story', kèda.tóu 'i (Triad)'.

Submitted by Albert J. Schütz, Prof Emeritus of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i personally at Mânoa, creator of 'A Fijian Language.'

Description
A normal Fijian word sequentially is VOS (Verb Object Subject): E rai-c-the (I) na there is no-na (Ii) valley (Iii) na never to return (Quatern). Three-sg.-sub. look at-trans.-Three-sg.-obj. (Unity) a Three-sg.-poss. (Two) home (Trine) a tike (Little joe). (A tike understands his home.)

The national language debate

Around Could & June 2005, a total of large Fiji Islanders known as for the status of Fijian to become upgraded. It was non an official language prior to a adoption of the 1997 Constitution, which made it co-official by using English and Hindustani. These are notwithstanding non a required subject around schools, however; the present Education Minister, Ro Teimumu Kepa, hwhen endorsed calls for it to be mass produced thus, as has Great Council of Chiefs Chairman Ratu Ovini Bokini. Similar calls come from either Misiwini Qereqeretabua, the Director of the Institute of Fijian Language and Culture, and from either Apolonia Tamata, a linguistics lecturer at Suva’s University of the South Pacific, who each said that recognition of the Fijian language is necessity to the nation’s basic identity, as a unifying factor out Fiji’s multicultural society.

Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra Chaudhry also endorsed a require Fijian to become mass produced the national language & the required school subject, provided that the equivalent status exist as springiness to Hindi—a position echoed by Krishna Vilas of the National Reconciliation Committee.