Western Fijian language

Western Fijian language

language
name= "Western Fijian"
states=Fiji
region=western half of Viti Levu, Waya Islands
speakers=57,000 (1977 Lincoln)
familycolor=Austronesian
fam2=Malayo-Polynesian(MP)
fam3=Central-Eastern MP
fam4=Eastern MP
fam5=Oceanic
fam6=Central-Eastern Oceanic
fam7=Remote Oceanic
fam8=Central Pacific
fam9=West Fijian-Rotuman
fam10=West Fijian
iso2=map|iso3=wyy

Western Fijian is an Oceanic language spoken in Fiji by about 57,000 people.

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