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Maldivian in Carl Faulmann [] 's Das Buch der Schrift, 1880. Dhivehi [2] or Divehi [3] [4] (/ d ɪ ˈ v eɪ h i / di-VAY-hee; [5] Dhivehi: ދިވެހި, IPA:), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the South Asian island country of Maldives [6] and on Minicoy Island, Lakshadweep, a union territory of India.
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The Maldives, [d] officially the Republic of Maldives, [e] and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean. The Maldives is southwest of Sri Lanka and India , about 750 kilometres (470 miles; 400 nautical miles) from the Asian continent's mainland.
Dhives Akuru, later called Dhivehi Akuru (meaning Maldivian letters) is a script formerly used for the Maldivian language. The name can be alternatively spelled Dives Akuru or Divehi Akuru using the ISO 15919 Romanization scheme, as the "d" is unaspirated.
Thaana, Tãnaa, Taana or Tāna ( ތާނަ) is the present writing system of the Maldivian language spoken in the Maldives.Thaana has characteristics of both an abugida (diacritics, vowel-killer strokes) and a true alphabet (all vowels are written), with consonants derived from indigenous and Arabic numerals, and vowels derived from the vowel diacritics of the Arabic abjad.
The oldest inscription found in the Maldives to date is an inscription on a coral stone found at an archaeological site on Landhū Island in Southern Miladhunmadulu Atoll, where there are important Buddhist archaeological remains including a large stupa. The Landhū inscription has been paleographically dated to the 6th–8th centuries CE.
Old Dhivehi is the earliest attested form of the Maldivian language, recorded in Loamaafaanu in the 12th and 13th centuries CE and various Buddhist texts beginning from the 6th century CE. It is the ancestral form which gave rise to the modern northern dialect of the Dhivehi language.
Maldivians share one culture and speak the Dhivehi language, which is a member of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages. [14] For ethnographic and linguistic purposes as well as geopolitical reasons, anthropologists divide the Maldivian people into three subgroups.