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	Maldives People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Generally, ordinary Divehis mostly know only that their islands were settled from Sri Lanka, that before Islam they were Buddhist, and that their language suggests the same origin.
		The medieval settlements from Sri Lanka were strongest in the southern islands, and this gave rise to the Divehi language, Buddhism, and the ideals of kinship.
		This supports the interpretation of the Sinhala chronicles that the ancestors of the Sinhalas, and therefore of the Divehis, came from western India, from Gujarat by sea, and not from Bengal.
	www.iias.nl /iiasn/iiasn5/insouasi/maloney.html (3042 words)

	MALDIVES
		The language spoken in the Maldives is Divehi, belonging to the group of Indo-Aryan languages, but having many affinities with the Dravidian languages of the geographical area in which the country lies.
		Besides the main form of Divehi, known as Malé Bas, this language has three markedly different variants which are located in the second group, in the South.
		For this reason, in Divehi families, parents were happy to have daughters because they would bring boys into their home, whereas sons would ‘bring fish to someone else’s house’, meaning that even during courtship, their interests would already be in the household of their forthcoming wife.
	www.maldives-ethnography.com (1145 words)

	Dhivehi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Divehi (Maldivian) is the official language of The Maldives.
		It is related to Sinhalese of Sri Lanka, but has its own script.
		It is spoken by over 200,000 in the Maldives and by about 10,000 in India.
	www.flw.com /languages/dhivehi.htm (37 words)

	The Divehi of the Maldive Islands -- A Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Their language, also called Divehi or Maldivinian, is an Indo-European language related to Sinhalese but has borrowed many words from Arabic and Persian.
		Originally Buddhists, the Divehi were converted to Islam in the year 1153 by a Moroccan traveler.
		Many Divehi are afraid to go out in the dark for fear of evil.
	www.geocities.com /orvillejenkins/profiles/divehi.html (423 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: The roots of Sinhala
		The term by which the Maldivians denote their language, 'Divehi Bas' literally means 'Language of the Islands' and has developed from the Old Sinhala diva - island' and basa - 'language', divehi being the genitive form of diva.
		Divehi shares with Sinhala, the simplification of conjunct consonants, the shortening of long vowels, the dropping of nasals and the de-aspiration of the aspirated consonents of Old-and Middle-Indo-Aryan represented by Sanskrit and Prakrit respectively.
		Another significant change is that of retroflex t to the peculiar Divehi sound sh which is uttered by placing the tip of the tongue in the highest part of the palate and letting the breath escape sideways between the teeth.
	www.lankalibrary.com /books/sinhala6.htm (1271 words)

	Unidecode!
		Divehi is written right-to-left, with vowels written as marks over or under the consonants.
		Divehi wisely uses a placeholder here: a letter that stands for the lack of a preceding consonant.
		The fact that Divehi is written "backwards" is just a matter for display on the screen; Unicode doesn't make an issue of this, and encodes things "in logical order", as it's called.
	interglacial.com /~sburke/tpj/as_html/tpj22.html (4759 words)

	kbAlertz: (827597) - The Contacts Index bar for the Syriac and for the Divehi (Thaana) fonts do not work in Microsoft ...
		The Contacts Index bar for the Syriac and for the Divehi (Thaana) fonts do not work in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 if you are running a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer or a Microsoft Windows XP-based computer.
		This problem occurs because both the Syriac and the Divehi (Thaana) fonts were released after Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP.
		Both the Divehi (Thaana) and the Syriac (Thaana) fonts are new for Windows XP and for Windows 2000 Server.
	www.kbalertz.com /kb_827597.aspx (436 words)

	Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Bastardisation of Divehi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In a recent Divehi language series of articles in a Maldive web site, someone who described himself as a curator of a mosque lamented what he considered a slight on the Arabic language.
		The writer's gripe was about Mullah Ibrahim using a Divehi word in an Arabic expression addressed to Arabs.
		The author was obviously upset at the apparent bastardisation of the Arabic language by Mullah Ibrahim and yet in the same series of articles he bastardised his own Divehi language with Arabic.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /editorail_allah.shtml (535 words)

	Majid's Pages - Minicoy, society and culture
		Mahl, also known as Divehi, is not an official language of India, but the official language of the Maldives.
		Although the Maldives has been a member of the United Nations since 1965, there is no official Divehi translation of the Declaration.
		It must be remembered that Minicoy is not a part of the Maldives and there is no evidence that it ever was.
	www.maj.s5.com /minicoy.htm (1376 words)

	The Unreached Peoples Prayer Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Maldivian speak a language called Divehi, which is related to the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka but has its own script.
		Officially called Divehi Rajje, the Maldives gained its independence in 1965 and has been a member of the United Nations since then.
		Christian broadcasts, a translation of the Bible, and increased prayer efforts are needed to reach the Maldivian with the Good News.
	www.ksafe.com /profiles/p_code5/646.html (850 words)

	Dhiveheenge Qaumee Kongress
		divehi dwaulwtwkI, divehirWacjEgwai, gWnUnuawsWsIaW aeacgotcvW gotuge mwtinc aufedifwaivW, dwaulwtc hincgumuge aencmehW bWrutwkWai, divehirWacjEge aencmehW rwacyituncnWai, divehirWacjEge swrwHwacdWai, mihurihW fwrWteac jumulwkoSeve.
		4.____ (1) divehi dwaulwtc hincgumuge aencmehW bWrutwac feSigenc awncnwnI, rwacyituncge kibwaincneve.
		(h) mi qWnUnuawsWsI hincgwnc fwSWairu divehi rwacyiteac kwmugwaivW koncme mIheac.
	www.geocities.com /independentmaldives/sample.htm (256 words)

	Meedhoo History
		note that some spellings of Divehi and Arabic words in this page are inconsistent with spellings used elsewhere in this site, as the material here was not translated by Majid
		Dhoo(n)deyre Ahmed Didi who transcribed these pages in Divehi was a son of Don Maniku, son of the Chief Justice from his Fuvah Mulaku wife, Dhiyareymagu Fatima Manike also known as Dhafagedharu Fatima Manike daughter of Ali Maniku of Vaarulu island in Huvadu Atoll.
		Translated into English from Divehi by Fareesha Abdulla and Michael O'Shea in Australia, in consultation with Majid.
	www.maj.s5.com /meedhoo_history.htm (2107 words)

	National Center for Linguistic and Historical Research - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		divehi bwhwkI kobwai kwmWai awdi divehi bwsc aufedigenc awaI kihineackwnc.
		awdi MiMwrukwzwkI divehi kiywvWkudIncge hitctwkugwyWai kuDwkudIncge hitctwkugwai divehibwhWai tWrIKW Medu xwauquverikwnc aufwacdwnc vwrwSc ginw Mwswackwtc kurW twnekeve.
		awdi divehibwhWai divehi tWrIKWbehE vwrwSc ginw MwAulUMWtuvesc libivwDwaigwncnwvWneaeve.
	www.qaumiyyath.gov.mv (81 words)

	Business > Newspapers > Asia > Maldives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Haveeru Daily Male local newspaper Maldives Language - Divehi
		Miadhu Daily Male local newspaper Maldives Language - Divehi
		Disclaimer - Please also note that links on this Site are maintained by individuals or organizations whom I have no control, therefore I take no responsibility for any misinformation, misprint, and typographical errors.
	www.belcho.be /bellink/business/Newspapers/Asia/Maldives (69 words)

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