East Fijian languages

East Fijian
Geographic distribution:	Fiji
Linguistic classification:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Central Pacific East Fijian
Subdivisions:	Fijian Gone Dau Lauan Lomaiviti
Glottolog:	`east2446`^[1]

The East Fijian languages are a subgroup of the Central Pacific (Fijian–Polynesian) languages. They are four: Fijian, Gone Dau, Lauan and Lomaiviti all spoken within Fiji.

The West Fijian languages are more closely related to Rotuman, and East Fijian to the Polynesian, than they are to each other, but contact has caused them to converge.

References

↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "East Fijian". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Languages of Fiji

Official languages	English Fijian Hindi

Indigenous languages	East Fijian Gilbertese Gone Dau Lauan Lomaiviti Namosi-Naitasiri-Serua Rotuman Western Fijian

Fijian–Polynesian languages

Polynesian

East

Marquesic	Hawaiian Mangerevan Marquesan

Tahitic	Austral Māori Moriori Penrhyn Rakahanga-Manihiki Rarotongan Tahitian Tuamotuan

Other	Rapa Rapa Nui

West

Samoic	Niuatoputapu Pukapuka Samoan Tokelauan

Ellicean	Kapingamarangi Nukumanu Nukuoro Nukuria Ontong Java Sikaiana Takuu Tuvaluan Vaeakau-Taumako

Futunic	Anuta Emae Futunan Futuna-Aniwan Mele-Fila Pukapukan Rennellese Tikopia Wallisian West Uvean

Tongic

Fijian

East	Fijian Gone Dau Lauan Lomaiviti

West	Namosi-Naitasiri-Serua Western Fijian

Other

Rotuman

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