fijian

Fijian is spoken by a third of a million people mainly in the Fiji islands of the Pacific. It is written in Latin (Roman) letters. Christianity was introduced to Fiji in the 1830s. The New Testament was translated into Fijian in 1847. The full Bible (Ai Vola Tabu) was first published by Methodist missionary Rev John Hunt in 1864, now called the Fijian Old Version (FOV). About two thirds of Fijian speaking Christians are Methodist, and the rest are other evangelical Protestant groups and a small Catholic minority. Bible work is done by the Bible Society in the South Pacific, which produced a new interconfessional version of the Scriptures in 1987.