I'm Fijian and yes, he's correct. Basically with the Tongan accent, "Viti" sounds closer to "Fisi" or "Fiji" being somewhere in between with their accent. (If you try to say Viti, Fiji and Fisi all at the same time, kind of blurring the words into one, you'll get an idea of how they pronounce it.) Fijians refer to themselves as "Kai-Viti" or "Vaka-Viti" where "Kai" and "Vaka" means "From" or "Of" and "Viti" being what our island is called. "Viti Levu" as mentioned in the video is the main island and can pretty much be translated as "Viti Island" or even "Main Island" and the other big main island, "Vanua Levu" can be translated as "Other Island" or "Other Main Island." Vanua really means "Land" but in this usage, "Land Island" really means "Other Land Island" or just "Other Island". So the people of Viti, being "Kaiviti" (From Viti) live on "Viti Levu" aka "Viti Island" along with some staying on "Vanua Levu" aka the Other Main island. See how that works. ;)
There is a difference between acting mature and actually being mature. And you have the worst acting ever. What makes all this funny is the way how you try to sound smart, but end up looking primitive. After all, it only takes a little hurricane to kill people in your country and then you run around begging the world for help.
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In the Fijian language, "Viti" is derived from the word "Vitika" which means to snap something. According to legend, "Viti Levu" was initially settled by "Lutunasobasoba" and his clan who first arrived in the western part of the main island on a canoe called "Kaunitoni" in a place now called "Viseisei". While travelling inland, they encountered a lot of reeds blocking their path which they had to "snap", they named the whole island "Viti Levu" loosely translates to "lots of snapping" in literal english. There's a lot variations across oceania but they all originate from that one word "Vitika". --- I don't know how I still remember this honestly XD
Vinaka Mosese; I remember hearing this explanation of "Vitika" (from which Viti was derived from) from my grandparents while growing up. As is the practice in most Pacific Islands' culture, history and traditional knowledge is verbaly passed down through generations via storytelling, chants, dances and/or incorporated within crafts.
CORRECTION! Fiji is from the word "Viti," derived from the verb "Vitika" which means 'to break or snap plants.' This was what our ancestors did as they dispersed through the island from the initial landing site. You can track these still existing ancestral 'Vitika' path called the "Tualeita" if/when you come to Fiji.
#MythsandLegends Yes, the word means that but it was the myth based on a story telling competition in a missionary school back in the days. That's a proven fact by researching scholars. Get knowledge and be illuminated with facts about your history That myth could've been true for just a group of people who came in multiple waves of migration from west Melanesia to Fiji, but not all Fijians originated from that group
Rotuma comes under Fiji but their language and culture is entirely different. I’m fijian and my Rotuma friends say that they are something between Samoa and Tonga but mostly Samoan. Which makes sense cause they don’t look Melanesian like us. They look more poly. But they still are categorized as Fijians.
Rotumans, Fijians and Polynesians generally share similar genetic mixes, just in different proportions. Rotumans and Polynesians have mostly East Asian haplotypes, derived from original Taiwanese seafarers who arrived in Fiji as "Lapita" people about 3,000 years ago. They descend partly also from a smaller proportion of "Papuan/Melanesian" ancestors, overwhelmingly through the maternal line. The opposite is true for Fijians, although "Lapita" ancestry increases as one travels from Western to Eastern Fiji/the Lau Archipelago. Rotumans have some Papuan ancestry. Like Fijians they speak a Central Polynesian language and Rotuman is most-closely related to the Western Dialect of the Fijian Language. We should not be fooled by superficial differences in skin tone, hair texture and the way we look. We Melanesians, Polynesians and Micronesians are ALL PASIFIKA and connected by shared prehistory/history, language and maritime culture 😀.
The name Fiji originally come from the name Visi. Visi is the name of the high chief of Penama Province, North East Vanuatu in short and in full name Talaivisi whom rule over the islands of Fiji. Some area in Fiji was named in his honour such as Laucala Bay - Lautalaivisi Bay and Lautalaivisi Beach (Laucala Beach). Lau means sand in the old language. An island is picture as a roaster, with its beautiful long feather on its back. The beautiful sand beach is the Lau of an island. Talaivisi died and was buried on North Raga (Pentecost) and his burial ground is known as Hingontalaivisi (Pentecost) and in Ambae refer to as Singotalaivisi in short Singotalai. There is a custom song in his honour - titled Bolo Visi. In childhood, we called the islands east of Pentecost as Visi and only in school that we were told of the name Fiji.
Bula!! Wow!! Interesting and fascinating story, first time i heard of it. Is the story part of oral history? I'm from Fiji by the way thank you for sharing the story, learning new stuff every day.
Very interesting. Vanuatu is nearly almost Fijian. Vanua in Fijian means land and it can also mean alot of things for it can identify as an ancestral spiritual environment. If I were to translate Vanua-tu in English would meant "the land that's been" I think there's a connection here. Thanks
Yes. Fijian came from Vanuatu 🇻🇺 in multiple waves of migration. Some of the words in Fiji are derived from certain Vanuatu names. They brought the yaqona with them. Also I might have heard that Viti/Visi is an old dialect meaning 'east of' So, as you sail from Vanuatu to Fiji (which typically is the migration routes back then) you will be sailing from west Melanesia (Vanuatu) to the Eastern Melanesia or if they used the old lingo - the Visi/Viti side; therefore approaching western Fiji - the great big island they saw was Naviti Island in Yasawa. Aptly named as the Eastern Island. But alas, when they reached Naviti they say a bigger island, probably they called Viti Levu meaning the bigger of the Eastern Island.
Tigon Playlist...Just go press your fiji explanation to the rubbish.. what the fuck does Fiji comes from Vanuatu? Fiji is the original place centers for Melanesians.. everything started in Fiji including Polynesian roots. Viti means to break or snap out branches or reeds when Fijis ancestors travelled inland still visible today. Who the hell Vanuatu to rule fiji.. bulshit lie.. Fiji is Fiji.. Vanuatu is nothing to Fiji. Fijians knows who they are very well
Fijians don't know the bluddy talaivisi..or whoever the guy who is he to rule Fiji? Take your bulshit story and stick it to vanuatu only not Fiji ok!?. Fiji is a powerful nation in the history of the pacific, Vanuatu is no near the history of Fiji. Fijis history are well kept in fijis archives. If you are not fijian, shut your mouth..
If you want, a video on The Bahamas would be cool. The country's name origin is pretty simple, but it would be nice if you could talk about the origin of some of the main islands' names. (Some are Spanish, Taino/Arawak, Eleuthera comes from Greek, etc.)
I thought 'archipelago' was pronounced 'ar-KI-pe-la-go' with a hard k, as far as I can remember I've always heard it pronounced that way but I might be wrong
Maybe I said it wrong so people would leave comments about it... I mean I didn't, but that would be cool right? In all honesty one of my biggest issues is presumption, while more exotic worlds I research and try to say correctly, sometimes I see a word I know and just presume how to say it, it's something I definitely need to focus on more :D
I've found myself doing this before as well, but I think it might be easier to remember how "archaeologist" is pronounced. Now I'm thinking about the vast number of sciences and professions and how they got their names, thanks @Name Explain!
I'm from the Solomons too! (Born in Fiji, father is Fijian and mother is Kiribati Islander from Solomon Islands (Wagina). I lived on both islands (Suva in Fiji, then Wagina and Honiara in Solomons) before coming to America! Are you from the Solomons? What part?
King Solomon of Israel. King of Magic, Binder of Demons, the Sorcerer King. His dad David was apparently obsessed with economics and real-estate. Sorry been playing a lot of Fate/GO.
The name is derived from their ship. Long ago people recognized you with your ship design. As you land ashore, you are called that name, according to your ship design, even though you don't really belong there.
Those rotumans are of Polynesian decent from mostly the Tongan empire settlers . And the majority of islanders are decendes of the melenasians islanders.
Being a grandsons of fijian chief, our legend state we traveled down the river Rufiji in Africa south of Tanzania.Apparently we were worrior who also Worked as gold mines Egypt There 2 brother
Fiji was discovered by the ancestors of Polynesians the Austronesians. The Melanesian population arrived in a second wave of migration after Austronesian discovery. Tongans are Austronesian. Melanesian Fijians were taught in schools that they sailed from Africa, which we all know to be incorrect.
In Germany "Fidschi" (pronounced almost like Fiji, although more like "fidshi") is a term for particularly East Asians. Although you should only say that to very good friends of yours ;)
In Africa, in this Taqanaika region, dwelt for a long time warrior group of people called the "Viti " people Africa king them very well This name brought Lutunasobasoba viti Egypt and Taqanaika long time called Viti and filian
slightly scary fact about Fiji from before it got its reputation as an island paradise, and what it was called by the Europeans before "Fiji" was fully-adopted. they were actually originally known to the West as THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS! yup. Fiji was full of cannibals way back when. it's where the stereotype of South Pacific islanders capturing missionaries and cooking them in big cauldrons comes from. thankfully, that stereotype has gone the way of the dodo.
Yup! Fijian here and I can attest that this is true! One famous Fijian was a chief by the name of Ratu Udre Udre and it was said he ate 999 people. Fijian legend actually has it that he killed his 1000th person, but died before he could eat him!
Please stop saying to people that we are cannibals.. Those are lies by the colonizers to downgrade us.. We were never cannibals.. In fact pacific Islanders had a plant base diet..
What do you mean Rotuma is the Scotland of Fiji? We don't wear kilt and we don't have Scottish living in Rotuma so can I ask you what do you mean Rotuma is known as Scotland of Fiji?
The true spelling of the name FIJI is FEJE as of FEYE which is God's Hebrew Name, later pronounced by white people who came in the 1800s as FEJEE then now Fiji..The name FEYE was the name He wrote on the tablet(from right to the left) at Mt Sinai in Arabia when Moses went to meet Him for the commandments.Even though that name Fiji,was coined in by missionaries/scholars who filter it through the Tongans nd Fejeeans pronunciation of Viti nd Fisi.But that's a part of their many ways of trying to manipulate the latter generations that that's how FEJEE got its name.But that doesn't make it true, because if you look at YHWH or God's Name in Hebrew,they say Yahuwah.In FEJEE it sounds like as we say Yahawah.The hu in Ya"hu"wah is not a hu it's the breath(His breath of Life in His name) after saying Yah,that's how the old Hebrew wrote it,In Fijian because we got strong breath(I cegu levu se I gulevu),we say Yahawah instead of Yahuwah.The Fijian consonant compared to the Tongans 'H"consonant we say 'S' instead of 'H' which is Yasawa instead of Yahawa..It's funny when it says in the clip that the missionaries replaced the S in the Tongan pronunciation of Fisi nd the T in the Fijian pronunciation of Viti by slotted in J from nowhere?..Come on, wake up Kai Viti !!.,it's only make sense if they replaced Y as of FEYE with the J.If you see some old US explorations in the Pacific from 1838-1842 when reached Viti.They wrote FEJEE instead of Fiji.So it would make sense to say that they replaced the Y with the J,as they did when they translated the Bible.We claimed His name because, it's all in the Bible book of Isaiah 24:15 which says," Therefore glorify the Lord in the east,extol the name of the Lord,God of Israel in the islands of the sea". So people from the east would declare His name.As Biblical verses also mentioned about the location of the first paradise.It says that the garden of Eden is located in the Oceanic Wilderness of the east of the earth where the sunrises and sunsets, which is pointing dabsmack in the FEJEE islands.So we are originating from a country under His name.Yahawah is great!!..Even the Tongan nd Samoan traditional compass says in the Tui Pulotu dynasty conversation on you tube by some Tongan nd Samoan former university students,that Fiji is in Tokelau which is Tokalau in Fijian nd it means east,that's because of the 180 meridian which runs across FEJE..
What a load of crap!! Hilarious. You are just as bad as Trump's conspiracy theorists!! Eden is in the Persian Gulf formerly Mesopotamia, been proven biblically and scientifically. Stop interpreting things to suit your narrative!
I just received a notification from this comment and you know what I just realised.... are you the airhead that edited the Tu'i Pulotu and Pulotu Wikipedia pages? I knew this comment sounded familiar... I showed those articles to my uncles and they nearly died laughing. This is a prime example as to why Wikipedia is not a credible source of information because they let anyone edit it.
Come on take that Afrocentric fake out of this post.Because that hasn't got any hard fact at all..Learn to be taught,because you don't even know that the homo sapiens of your continent came from this people on this post.Check out names in North Africa they were mostly Fijians..Names like Mali,Tunisia,Ceuta(Morocco),Beraberata (a tribe in Morocco),Tata a place name up there near Ceuta..And the Egyptian pyramid constructions idea was taken from the shape of our thatch houses in the past. Where our traditional priests used to communicate with the gods in the spiritual realm in the highest roof house in a village or district. When our ancestors was sent abroad by their kings at that time..They've got the idea of how to communicate spiritually in those higher roof temples in Fiji.And some were underwater..So they took it with them,nd pyramids were constructed around the world. So as big concentric circles, spiral images,standing stone circles, big stone circles on the ground..etc..Thats their civilisation..In Mauritania was where the Moors came from,where a big concentric circles was seen yrs ago..All those can be seen in ancient areas around Fiji..The Moors were the ones that taught Europeans how to read nd bath..Them Moors were with the Berbers tribe,..source Israeli history records..
1st century cushites from Ethiopia settle in Tanganyika 10th century AD about this time the fable of fijian from Tanganyika ( Chronological History man in Tanganyika)
Bible already Izekel 5 :10 That true cuz viti in Africa refers to warrior tribe of cannibal that dominated parts of Tanzania ancient times % lived along the fiji River. Some of their descendants still today called fiji people
Hindustani is not a language its people of India is called in their local name Hindustan(land of hindus) coming to language it must be Hindi-Urdu respectively!
This channel is so freaking interesting
Watch your language
I'm Fijian and yes, he's correct. Basically with the Tongan accent, "Viti" sounds closer to "Fisi" or "Fiji" being somewhere in between with their accent. (If you try to say Viti, Fiji and Fisi all at the same time, kind of blurring the words into one, you'll get an idea of how they pronounce it.) Fijians refer to themselves as "Kai-Viti" or "Vaka-Viti" where "Kai" and "Vaka" means "From" or "Of" and "Viti" being what our island is called. "Viti Levu" as mentioned in the video is the main island and can pretty much be translated as "Viti Island" or even "Main Island" and the other big main island, "Vanua Levu" can be translated as "Other Island" or "Other Main Island." Vanua really means "Land" but in this usage, "Land Island" really means "Other Land Island" or just "Other Island". So the people of Viti, being "Kaiviti" (From Viti) live on "Viti Levu" aka "Viti Island" along with some staying on "Vanua Levu" aka the Other Main island. See how that works. ;)
Zeid Khan : may God bless Fiji
Nobody wants to know about your 3rd world dump, weirdo. Your country is full of racial and political problems!
The Guy Nobody Really Likes: Nice try, but c'mon, you can troll better than that. I'll give you an "E" for "effort."
There is a difference between acting mature and actually being mature. And you have the worst acting ever. What makes all this funny is the way how you try to sound smart, but end up looking primitive. After all, it only takes a little hurricane to kill people in your country and then you run around begging the world for help.
The Guy Nobody Really Likes: Almost there buddy! Give it one more go, you might get it! Third time's the charm. Remember, to be a good troll, you have to give it some effort, be creative and really try to rile people up! The hurricane kills and begging is almost there, but still a bit lazy. Give us another one, but don't be afraid to be creative with it! I'll rate your last comment with a B, but I know you can earn an A!
Or is Scotland the Rotuma of Britain? Hmm.
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Rotuma comes under Fiji. They have a different language from but they are like the adopted sibling that we love and care for.
Word. Culturally distinct, but historically connected nonetheless.
culturally Polynesian/Micronesian.
Yass. They have assimilated to become an intergral part of Fijian society.
In the Fijian language, "Viti" is derived from the word "Vitika" which means to snap something. According to legend, "Viti Levu" was initially settled by "Lutunasobasoba" and his clan who first arrived in the western part of the main island on a canoe called "Kaunitoni" in a place now called "Viseisei". While travelling inland, they encountered a lot of reeds blocking their path which they had to "snap", they named the whole island "Viti Levu" loosely translates to "lots of snapping" in literal english. There's a lot variations across oceania but they all originate from that one word "Vitika". --- I don't know how I still remember this honestly XD
Vinaka Mosese; I remember hearing this explanation of "Vitika" (from which Viti was derived from) from my grandparents while growing up. As is the practice in most Pacific Islands' culture, history and traditional knowledge is verbaly passed down through generations via storytelling, chants, dances and/or incorporated within crafts.
CORRECTION! Fiji is from the word "Viti," derived from the verb "Vitika" which means 'to break or snap plants.' This was what our ancestors did as they dispersed through the island from the initial landing site. You can track these still existing ancestral 'Vitika' path called the "Tualeita" if/when you come to Fiji.
#MythsandLegends
Yes, the word means that but it was the myth based on a story telling competition in a missionary school back in the days. That's a proven fact by researching scholars.
Get knowledge and be illuminated with facts about your history
That myth could've been true for just a group of people who came in multiple waves of migration from west Melanesia to Fiji, but not all Fijians originated from that group
@@lattisimusdorsi3761 cool
"Rotuman is the Scotland of Fiji" XD as a Brit I found this hilarious. At least Fiji doesn't have their own Wales
Hahaha
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Rotuma comes under Fiji but their language and culture is entirely different. I’m fijian and my Rotuma friends say that they are something between Samoa and Tonga but mostly Samoan. Which makes sense cause they don’t look Melanesian like us. They look more poly. But they still are categorized as Fijians.
Well duh, of course they are fijian. They are part of the country lol
Rotumans, Fijians and Polynesians generally share similar genetic mixes, just in different proportions. Rotumans and Polynesians have mostly East Asian haplotypes, derived from original Taiwanese seafarers who arrived in Fiji as "Lapita" people about 3,000 years ago. They descend partly also from a smaller proportion of "Papuan/Melanesian" ancestors, overwhelmingly through the maternal line.
The opposite is true for Fijians, although "Lapita" ancestry increases as one travels from Western to Eastern Fiji/the Lau Archipelago.
Rotumans have some Papuan ancestry. Like Fijians they speak a Central Polynesian language and Rotuman is most-closely related to the Western Dialect of the Fijian Language.
We should not be fooled by superficial differences in skin tone, hair texture and the way we look. We Melanesians, Polynesians and Micronesians are ALL PASIFIKA and connected by shared prehistory/history, language and maritime culture 😀.
The name Fiji originally come from the name Visi. Visi is the name of the high chief of Penama Province, North East Vanuatu in short and in full name Talaivisi whom rule over the islands of Fiji. Some area in Fiji was named in his honour such as Laucala Bay - Lautalaivisi Bay and Lautalaivisi Beach (Laucala Beach). Lau means sand in the old language. An island is picture as a roaster, with its beautiful long feather on its back. The beautiful sand beach is the Lau of an island. Talaivisi died and was buried on North Raga (Pentecost) and his burial ground is known as Hingontalaivisi (Pentecost) and in Ambae refer to as Singotalaivisi in short Singotalai. There is a custom song in his honour - titled Bolo Visi. In childhood, we called the islands east of Pentecost as Visi and only in school that we were told of the name Fiji.
Bula!!
Wow!! Interesting and fascinating story, first time i heard of it. Is the story part of oral history? I'm from Fiji by the way thank you for sharing the story, learning new stuff every day.
Very interesting. Vanuatu is nearly almost Fijian. Vanua in Fijian means land and it can also mean alot of things for it can identify as an ancestral spiritual environment. If I were to translate Vanua-tu in English would meant "the land that's been"
I think there's a connection here. Thanks
Yes. Fijian came from Vanuatu 🇻🇺 in multiple waves of migration. Some of the words in Fiji are derived from certain Vanuatu names. They brought the yaqona with them.
Also I might have heard that Viti/Visi is an old dialect meaning 'east of'
So, as you sail from Vanuatu to Fiji (which typically is the migration routes back then) you will be sailing from west Melanesia (Vanuatu) to the Eastern Melanesia or if they used the old lingo - the Visi/Viti side; therefore approaching western Fiji - the great big island they saw was Naviti Island in Yasawa. Aptly named as the Eastern Island. But alas, when they reached Naviti they say a bigger island, probably they called Viti Levu meaning the bigger of the Eastern Island.
Tigon Playlist...Just go press your fiji explanation to the rubbish.. what the fuck does Fiji comes from Vanuatu? Fiji is the original place centers for Melanesians.. everything started in Fiji including Polynesian roots. Viti means to break or snap out branches or reeds when Fijis ancestors travelled inland still visible today. Who the hell Vanuatu to rule fiji.. bulshit lie.. Fiji is Fiji.. Vanuatu is nothing to Fiji. Fijians knows who they are very well
Fijians don't know the bluddy talaivisi..or whoever the guy who is he to rule Fiji? Take your bulshit story and stick it to vanuatu only not Fiji ok!?. Fiji is a powerful nation in the history of the pacific, Vanuatu is no near the history of Fiji. Fijis history are well kept in fijis archives. If you are not fijian, shut your mouth..
If you want, a video on The Bahamas would be cool. The country's name origin is pretty simple, but it would be nice if you could talk about the origin of some of the main islands' names. (Some are Spanish, Taino/Arawak, Eleuthera comes from Greek, etc.)
That moment when you warn people you'll be mispronouncing Pacific Islander place names but end up mispronouncing "archipelago".
I thought 'archipelago' was pronounced 'ar-KI-pe-la-go' with a hard k, as far as I can remember I've always heard it pronounced that way but I might be wrong
Gavin Herrera It is pronounced Ar-kuh-pe-la-go, it's the only correct pronunciation. So Name Explain dit it wrong.
Maybe I said it wrong so people would leave comments about it... I mean I didn't, but that would be cool right? In all honesty one of my biggest issues is presumption, while more exotic worlds I research and try to say correctly, sometimes I see a word I know and just presume how to say it, it's something I definitely need to focus on more :D
But how has an 'educator' like you never heard anyone say 'archipelago' before?
It’s ar-kuh because it has arch- stem
architect, archaeology, archive
Exceptions are archer/archery, arch
I've found myself doing this before as well, but I think it might be easier to remember how "archaeologist" is pronounced. Now I'm thinking about the vast number of sciences and professions and how they got their names, thanks @Name Explain!
when i first heard of fiji, i thought of fish.
A fishy assumption of Fijian piscine life!
We eat that raw cooked in lemon with coconut milk. A delicacy actually
The Lomaiviti island is pronounced like "lomai-veetee"
You tried your best-
Thanks for choosing my suggestion. Very interesting video.
"Archipelago" is pronounced as Ar-ki-PE-la-go. It is pronounced with a hard "c" like the way you would say "Architect" or "Archaeology".
It's ironic how some of these knowledge/history channel people are so ignorant of basic common words and things.
Great video brotha
Please do a video about the provincial capitals of Canada and I will personally oversee Canada's reintegration into Great Britain.
Proud Fijian !!! 🙋🏾♀️
Areh you Indian
@@riusjoe2387 What does it matter? You are so entitled and racist shut up
Scotland is the Rotana of the UK.
*Rotuma
Matthew Lee *Rotuma
Prakhar Tiwari thanks
The Solomon Islands are named after King Solomon from the Bible. How about a video on this topic?
I'm from the Solomons too! (Born in Fiji, father is Fijian and mother is Kiribati Islander from Solomon Islands (Wagina). I lived on both islands (Suva in Fiji, then Wagina and Honiara in Solomons) before coming to America!
Are you from the Solomons? What part?
No, I'm German! :D Just interested in Geography and History!!
King Solomon of Israel. King of Magic, Binder of Demons, the Sorcerer King. His dad David was apparently obsessed with economics and real-estate. Sorry been playing a lot of Fate/GO.
phillipalexander: Awesome! I love geography and history too! More power to ya!
Why bother, you already gave away the ending! /JK 🤣
The name is derived from their ship. Long ago people recognized you with your ship design. As you land ashore, you are called that name, according to your ship design, even though you don't really belong there.
Can you do a video about the Spanish Galicia and the Galicia in Eastern Europe? What is the connection?
Name explain for the ff. words pls. "panzer","philippines","philosophy"
Those rotumans are of Polynesian decent from mostly the Tongan empire settlers .
And the majority of islanders are decendes of the melenasians islanders.
jalen gee no their not idoit their from fiji
Bobby Boogie
Are you talking about the rotumans who are a different ethnicity . Doesn't matter who was where first
Bobby Boogie
Their related after exposure, they don't have same origin
Being a grandsons of fijian chief, our legend state we traveled down the river Rufiji in Africa south of Tanzania.Apparently we were worrior who also
Worked as gold mines Egypt
There 2 brother
im fijian and thx for doing this my island is lau so good job
Fiji was discovered by the ancestors of Polynesians the Austronesians. The Melanesian population arrived in a second wave of migration after Austronesian discovery. Tongans are Austronesian. Melanesian Fijians were taught in schools that they sailed from Africa, which we all know to be incorrect.
Haha.. Fijians were the Forfarthers of the Polynesian race.. Stop misleading the people here..
I love this videos so much!
Leviticus - le-viti-cus-viti
Levite -< liviti -viti
Viti
Name viti
Grandfather brought ancient times
In Germany "Fidschi" (pronounced almost like Fiji, although more like "fidshi") is a term for particularly East Asians. Although you should only say that to very good friends of yours ;)
F- freedom
I- interested
J- justice
I - lsland
Love from india 🇮🇳 ✌️ ❤️
In Africa, in this Taqanaika region, dwelt for a long time warrior group of people called the "Viti " people Africa king them very well
This name brought Lutunasobasoba viti
Egypt and Taqanaika long time called
Viti and filian
What dou you mean by Rotuma is the Scotland of Fiji?
where did you get that information???
slightly scary fact about Fiji from before it got its reputation as an island paradise, and what it was called by the Europeans before "Fiji" was fully-adopted. they were actually originally known to the West as THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS!
yup. Fiji was full of cannibals way back when. it's where the stereotype of South Pacific islanders capturing missionaries and cooking them in big cauldrons comes from. thankfully, that stereotype has gone the way of the dodo.
Yup! Fijian here and I can attest that this is true! One famous Fijian was a chief by the name of Ratu Udre Udre and it was said he ate 999 people. Fijian legend actually has it that he killed his 1000th person, but died before he could eat him!
Please stop saying to people that we are cannibals.. Those are lies by the colonizers to downgrade us.. We were never cannibals.. In fact pacific Islanders had a plant base diet..
What about Amazon?
Rotuma & Fiji are family
I love this video also do a video on how wars got there names
What do you mean Rotuma is the Scotland of Fiji? We don't wear kilt and we don't have Scottish living in Rotuma so can I ask you what do you mean Rotuma is known as Scotland of Fiji?
oh i thought this said 11 hours
Can you do a vid on fyrom and greece
Σκάσε!
Fyrom?
Sam Lucas a country in the Balkans
Sam Lucas makedonia
FYROM got it's name from the ancient kingdom of Macedon, but had to call itself FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
Make a video about how Tristan da Cunha got its name
3:00 There's my name!
I'm from Fiji😄😄 thanks😀 n I'm also Rotuma
Father:Kadvu.
Mother:Rotuma.
Fiji mix melanesian -Polynesian -Indian and Originally kaiviti
Bula Sia! from Vanua Levu, Fiji
From a flower
Edit I was wrong
Great video
Explain Sierra Leone please. Did lions inhabit the mountainous geography of the country?
Plz make a video about Denmark or scandinavia
I like your videos very much
The true spelling of the name FIJI is FEJE as of FEYE which is God's Hebrew Name, later pronounced by white people who came in the 1800s as FEJEE then now Fiji..The name FEYE was the name He wrote on the tablet(from right to the left) at Mt Sinai in Arabia when Moses went to meet Him for the commandments.Even though that name Fiji,was coined in by missionaries/scholars who filter it through the Tongans nd Fejeeans pronunciation of Viti nd Fisi.But that's a part of their many ways of trying to manipulate the latter generations that that's how FEJEE got its name.But that doesn't make it true, because if you look at YHWH or God's Name in Hebrew,they say Yahuwah.In FEJEE it sounds like as we say Yahawah.The hu in Ya"hu"wah is not a hu it's the breath(His breath of Life in His name) after saying Yah,that's how the old Hebrew wrote it,In Fijian because we got strong breath(I cegu levu se I gulevu),we say Yahawah instead of Yahuwah.The Fijian consonant compared to the Tongans 'H"consonant we say 'S' instead of 'H' which is Yasawa instead of Yahawa..It's funny when it says in the clip that the missionaries replaced the S in the Tongan pronunciation of Fisi nd the T in the Fijian pronunciation of Viti by slotted in J from nowhere?..Come on, wake up Kai Viti !!.,it's only make sense if they replaced Y as of FEYE with the J.If you see some old US explorations in the Pacific from 1838-1842 when reached Viti.They wrote FEJEE instead of Fiji.So it would make sense to say that they replaced the Y with the J,as they did when they translated the Bible.We claimed His name because, it's all in the Bible book of Isaiah 24:15 which says," Therefore glorify the Lord in the east,extol the name of the Lord,God of Israel in the islands of the sea". So people from the east would declare His name.As Biblical verses also mentioned about the location of the first paradise.It says that the garden of Eden is located in the Oceanic Wilderness of the east of the earth where the sunrises and sunsets, which is pointing dabsmack in the FEJEE islands.So we are originating from a country under His name.Yahawah is great!!..Even the Tongan nd Samoan traditional compass says in the Tui Pulotu dynasty conversation on you tube by some Tongan nd Samoan former university students,that Fiji is in Tokelau which is Tokalau in Fijian nd it means east,that's because of the 180 meridian which runs across FEJE..
OILEEEEEEELEEEEEEEEELLELELELELELELELELEI!!!! What did I just read and Tokalau means north both in Samoan and Fijian.
What a load of crap!! Hilarious. You are just as bad as Trump's conspiracy theorists!! Eden is in the Persian Gulf formerly Mesopotamia, been proven biblically and scientifically. Stop interpreting things to suit your narrative!
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I just received a notification from this comment and you know what I just realised.... are you the airhead that edited the Tu'i Pulotu and Pulotu Wikipedia pages? I knew this comment sounded familiar... I showed those articles to my uncles and they nearly died laughing. This is a prime example as to why Wikipedia is not a credible source of information because they let anyone edit it.
Vei lecayaki nomu vakamacala
it got it from the water bottle
Name viti round fiji
Hill Totoya name viti
Gau lomai viti
Yasawa na viti
Ra na viti bay
Rotuma is originally Polynesian
1st century cushites from Ethiopia settle in Tanganyika
( Chronological History man in Tanganyika)
300! is approx. 3,0605751*10^614
Make a video about the Baltic States
Rotuma is pronounced 'Row-two-ma'
300! Roughly equals to= 3.
3060575122164406360353704612972686293885888041735769994167767412594765331767168674655152914224775733499391478887017263688642639077590031542268429279069745598412254769302719546040080122157762521768546……[614 digits later] THE END!
Fiji name is Tanganyika river Rufiji
The Scotland of Fiji.
I watched the geography video about Fiji when they mentioned Rotuma, they referred as "Hawaii of Fiji". Yeah, I'm from Rotuma.
Archipelago is not pronounced with a hard "Arch".
It's more like arkipelago
Archie Pelican.
You should have compared Fiji with Fuji
Hindustani isn't a language but the language that we speak is a subsidary of aaryan
_IPA_
Viti Levu: ['βitʃi 'leβu]
Vanua Levu: ['βa'nua 'leβu]
Lomaiviti: [lomɛi̯'βitʃi]
Lau: [lɔu̯]
Rotuma: ['rɔtuma]
Not many languages, many dialects.
Three million years from now, Fiji will be a prime destination for the amateur horse breeder.
Lutunasobasoba brought the name fijian and viti words ancient times
Name brought Egypt ancient times
Name fijian
Lutunasobasoba brought the Fiji
Rufiji river Tanganyika
egg
name FIJI come from the name Ru-FIJI,this in an area around river RUFIJI in Tanganyika(Tanzania-East africa) where this people came from
Come on take that Afrocentric fake out of this post.Because that hasn't got any hard fact at all..Learn to be taught,because you don't even know that the homo sapiens of your continent came from this people on this post.Check out names in North Africa they were mostly Fijians..Names like Mali,Tunisia,Ceuta(Morocco),Beraberata (a tribe in Morocco),Tata a place name up there near Ceuta..And the Egyptian pyramid constructions idea was taken from the shape of our thatch houses in the past. Where our traditional priests used to communicate with the gods in the spiritual realm in the highest roof house in a village or district. When our ancestors was sent abroad by their kings at that time..They've got the idea of how to communicate spiritually in those higher roof temples in Fiji.And some were underwater..So they took it with them,nd pyramids were constructed around the world. So as big concentric circles, spiral images,standing stone circles, big stone circles on the ground..etc..Thats their civilisation..In Mauritania was where the Moors came from,where a big concentric circles was seen yrs ago..All those can be seen in ancient areas around Fiji..The Moors were the ones that taught Europeans how to read nd bath..Them Moors were with the Berbers tribe,..source Israeli history records..
Fuck your African origin.. Its the other way around.. We never came from Africa..
Long time Egypt and Tanganyika century the name called Viti
Love the channel, but word of advice, it sounds half-assed when one doesn't take the time to pronounce a name correct.
Where did nepal get its name?
From India
I love Fiji
Mi Les : may you have the change to go and visit
wouldn't it be ro-tu-ma instead of rot-uma
Fiji was named after the water brand
Stfu
I named it.
1st century cushites from Ethiopia settle in Tanganyika
10th century AD about this time the fable of fijian from Tanganyika
( Chronological History man in Tanganyika)
The name Rufiji river Tanganyika
Bible already
Izekel 5 :10
That true cuz viti in Africa refers to warrior tribe of cannibal that dominated parts of Tanzania ancient times % lived along the fiji River. Some of their descendants still today called fiji people
Its Viti but the explore cant pronounced the word properly So V is F and T is J...that why its Fiji...
Next, Explain How Patreon got its name and how it works.
jk, honestly tho...
I'm financially incapable of such actions.
NOT the same way that das Kaiserreich got it's name.
Kaiser Wilhelm huh?
AHA. no source given for archipelago
I like videos about countries plus EARLY
Their is Lau taviuni Ra kadavu levuka is the old capital of Fiji and I know this cause I am a fijian
Excuse me it is called lomaiviti
Lutunasobasoba brought fijian name from African Tanganyika
the name of river
Ruah river fiji or lake Tanganyika
Its lo mai vi ti island not the lo mai wa ta ISLAND...🤣🤣🤣...but its really interesting...😊
I have a aunty who’s rotuman she stays in suva
How did I spend $60 on a handy ✊🏻
Tonga-Samoa - Maori cook Island
All Polynesian ancient times came Filipino Taiwan
Hindustani is not a language its people of India is called in their local name Hindustan(land of hindus) coming to language it must be Hindi-Urdu respectively!
Nice try re pronunciation 😄 Fiji isn't in the middle of no where - it's in the Pacific ❤
He did pretty well, lol!
So your telling me it’s not in the middle of Nowhere Kansas?
Never been to Fiji
As if it makes a difference whether Feces is in the Pacific or in the middle of nowhere. It is a country full of dirty, filthy people.
So.......the middle of nowhere?
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