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Fiji Bauan High Court Interpreters

Fiji Bauan High Court Interpreters

Fijian Bauan is a language spoken by perhaps half of the 300,000 people on the Fiji Islands in the Western Pacific. Although there are a number of islands in the archipelago of Fiji, resulting in a number of Fijian dialects, Bauan is the official language. Bauan, also known as Old High Fijian, was spoken by missionaries who visited the islands in the early nineteenth century, and is spoken in Church and is the language used in the Fijian Bible. Due to the remoteness of the islands, and the extreme distance of the islands from any major land mass, it is understandable that a number of local dialects have emerged. It is thought that most Fijians can understand Bauan even if they cannot speak it. But Fijian Bauan is not universally understood, and some 50,000 speakers of Western Fijian are unable to understand it at all. To aid communication between different islands, some inhabitants speak Pidgin Fijian, a simplified version of Bauan: whereas Bauan has 135 distinct forms of pronouns, Pidgin Fijian has only six.

In dealing with customers from the Fiji Islands, it is therefore vital to ascertain if they understand and speak Fijian Bauan.

To get a competitive quote for a Fijian Bauan interpreter, please telephone Freecall 0800 633 5985 or….