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- Title
THE GUJARATI LANGUAGE IN FIJI.
- Authors
Mugler, France; Mamtora, Jayshree
- Abstract
This paper presents a sociolinguistic sketch of Gujarati, a minority language in Fiji. Unlike the majority of Indo-Fijians, who are descendants of indentured labourers brought by the British colonial government to work on plantations at the turn of the last century, the Gujaratis came to Fiji as free migrants and have kept kinship and business ties with the Indian state of Gujarat and, increasingly, a worldwide diaspora. The paper reports the results of an exploratory survey of language use and attitudes among Gujaratis in the capital, Suva. It compares the fate of Gujarati to that of other minority Indian languages in Fiji with respect to language shift and maintenance.
- Subjects
FIJI; GUJARATI language; SOCIOLINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Te Reo, 2004, Vol 47, p29
- ISSN
0494-8440
- Publication type
Article