Maldivian
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Maldivian is the official language spoken by people in the Maldives, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. It belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family, which connects it to many other languages spoken across South Asia and beyond.
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Maldivian in Carl Faulmann [de]'s Das Buch der Schrift, 1880
Dhivehi (ދިވެހި, Dhivehi, [d̪iʋehi]), also known by its exonym Maldivian, 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; as well as the neighbouring Minicoy Island within Lakshadweep, a union territory of India.
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