Fiji to host World Hindi conference next year.

October 20, 2022

Fiji is set to host the World Hindi conference next year with over 1,000 delegates attending the event, Indian High Commissioner to Fiji, Palaniswamy Karthigeyan, confirmed.
The three-day conference, which would be held in the Fijian city of Nadi and envisaged to promote Hindi globally, would see the participation of over 1,000 experts of the Indian language, including scholars, writers and laureates.
Hindi is one of the three languages spoken in the South-Pacific nation, the other two being Fijian and English.
Fiji Hindi is also known as ‘Fijian Baat’ or ‘Fijian Hindustani’.
According to the United Nations (2020), Fiji has a population of more than 896,000 and out of which over 30 per cent is of Indian-origin. Many Indians arrived in Fiji as indentured labour in the 19th century.