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Maldivian
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Indo-Aryan national language of the Maldives
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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- Indo-Aryan
- Country
- Maldives
- Image
- Div Akuru F21.JPG
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- has grammatical case
- ablative case
- Commons category
- Divehi language
- topic's main category
- Category:Maldivian language
- Wikimedia language code
- dv
- writing system
- Dhives Akuru
- native label
- ދިވެހިބަސް
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 340500
- indigenous to
- Maldives
- P10369
- language
- P11012
- Alexander Allerson
- ethnic group
- Maldivians
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Encyclopedic overview
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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