| Language name: | FIJIAN |
| UPSID number: | 2439 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Tai, East Malayo-Polynesian |
| This language has | 30 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.341315595 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p tD k ? mb ndD Ng f B 6D s m nD N nr r l j gA i "e a "o u ei ai oi ou eu au |
| Comment: | Boumaa dialect. Boumaa Fijian is spoken around 'Orovou on Taveuni, Fiji. All vowels may occur long. Long vowels and diphthongs attract stress; primary stress goes on the syllable containing the penultimate mora in Dixon's formulation. /k/ occurs in loans from Standard Fijian, Tongan, and English; /f/ in loans from English and Tongan. |
| Source(s): | Dixon, R.M.W. 1988. A Grammar of Boumaa Fijian. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. |