Thaana
Sign in to saveThaana, Tãna, Taana or Tāna (  ) 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. Maldivian orthography in Thaana is largely phonemic.
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- Thaana
- Writing system.native_name
- ތާނަ
- Writing system.sample
- Dhivehiscript.svg
- Writing system.imagesize
- 100px
- Writing system.type
- Abjad/Abugida
- Writing system.time
- 17th century — present
- Writing system.typedesc
- With no inherent vowel
- Writing system.languages
- Maldivian language
- Writing system.fam1
- Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Writing system.fam2
- Proto-Sinaitic script
- Writing system.fam3
- Phoenician alphabet
- Writing system.fam4
- Aramaic alphabet
- Writing system.fam5
- Nabataean script
- Writing system.fam6
- Partially from Arabic Alphabet and Hindu-Arabic numerals
- Writing system.iso15924
- Thaa
- Writing system.unicode
- U+0780–U+07BF
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
12 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Characteristics
- Consonants
- ''Naviyani''
- Additional letters
- Vowels
- Unicode
- See also
- References
- Literature
- External links
Thaana, Tãna, Taana or Tāna (  ) 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. Maldivian orthography in Thaana is largely phonemic.
==Name== H. C. P. Bell, the first serious researcher of Maldivian documents, used the spelling Tāna, as the initial consonant is unaspirated. The spelling Thaana was adopted in the mid-1970s, when the government of the Maldives embarked on a short period of Romanization; /t/ was transcribed , as was used for the voiceless retroflex plosive .