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Maldivian

Indo-Aryan Languages

Maldivian, also known by its endonym Dhivehi, is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch spoken by the Maldivian people native to the archipelagic state of the Maldives, as well as on the neighboring Minicoy Island within India's Lakshadweep union territory.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
div 2
Speaker Count
504,829 2
2022 figure for native speakers, cited in the Wikipedia infobox.
Status
Living 2
Attested From (Year)
from 1195 3
Date of the Dhanbidhoo Loamaafaanu copper-plate grant, the earliest precisely dated document in Old Dhivehi, the ancestral form of modern Maldivian.
Region
Maldives and Minicoy Island (Lakshadweep, India) 2
Classification
Language Kind
Safe 1
Official Status
Official Language 2
Connections

In Family

Indo-Aryan, Language Families
Source Maldivian language, Wikipedia
Indo-Iranian, Language Families
Source Maldivian language, Wikipedia

Written In

Thaana Script, Scripts
Source Thaana (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases

Found In

Asia

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Sources
1. Glottolog: Dhivehi (Glottolog languoid dhiv1236)
GlottologEndangerment, AES status
Quote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
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2. Maldivian language, Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph
    primarily spoken by the Maldivian people native to the South Asian archipelagic state of the Maldives
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3 field
    div
  • Infobox, Native speakers field
    504,829 (2022)
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence
    is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family, primarily spoken by the Maldivian people native to the South Asian archipelagic state of the Maldives
  • Infobox, Official language in
    Maldives
  • In Family: Indo-Iranian, Infobox, Language family
    Indo-Iranian
  • In Family: Indo-Aryan, Infobox, Language family
    Indo-Aryan
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3. Old Dhivehi, Wikipedia
Infobox: imagecaption
Quote, Infobox: imagecaption
Dhanbidhoo Loamaafaanu (1195 CE) is written in the Old Dhivehi language
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Thaana (Wikipedia)
Written In: Thaana Script, Lead, first sentence
Quote, Written In: Thaana Script, Lead, first sentence
is the writing system of the Maldivian language spoken in the Maldives
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