Fijian
See also: fijian
English
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- enPR: fē-jē'ən, fĭ-jē'ən, IPA(key): /fiːˈd͡ʒiːən/, /fɪˈd͡ʒiːən/
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- Rhymes: -iːən
Translations
    
a person from Fiji or of Fijian descent
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Adjective
    
Fijian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people.
-  1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, pages 37–38:- [S]he wore her brown hair flatly braided and coiled behind so as to expose the outline of her head in a daring manner at a time when public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows, never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean.
 
 
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Derived terms
    
Translations
    
Pertaining to Fiji, or its language or people
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Proper noun
    
Fijian
- an Austronesian language of the Malayo-Polynesian family spoken on Fiji. It has 650,000 speakers, including second language users.
Translations
    
language
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Further reading
    
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Fijian terms
- ISO 639-1 code fj, ISO 639-3 code fij (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Fijian, fij   
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