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	Sinhala Language
		These languages share common characteristics and the Indo-Aryan language which is closest to Sinhala is “Divehi” the language of the Maldive Islands, which is written in a script called “Tana”.
		‘Divehi’ is considered as an offshoot or a sister language of Sinhala.
		The Tamil language, which belongs to the Dravidian group has influenced the structure and vocabulary of Sinhalese to such an extent that some scholars were erroneously led to believe that Sinhalese belonged to the Dravidian group of languages.
	members.tripod.com /~hettiarachchi/sinhala2.html (588 words)

	The Divehi of the Maldive Islands -- A Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Identity and Language: The people are mainly descendants of the Sinhalese from Sri Lanka and call themselves the "Divehi" which means Islanders.
		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.
	www.geocities.com /orvillejenkins/profiles/divehi.html (423 words)

	Maldives People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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 Royal Family Official Website: MALIKU: THE FADING GLORY OF A LONELY QUEEN?
		Linguistic experts in Maldives agree that it is the very same Divehi language that is spoken in Maldives, with an accent similar to that spoken in northern islands of Maldives.
		Thus the children of Maliku are compelled to use languages other than their mother tongue and are slowly undergoing a process of acculturation and the Divehi bas (Mahl) is in near verge of extinction at least in one of the Divehi speaking communities.
		The language does not have a script, and earlier, ie, after embracing islam, the islanders used Arabic script to write the religious scriptures which are even available today.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /minicoy_holhification.shtml (4394 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)

	Online Data - Language Codes
		Macintosh codes sometimes have two variants, depending on the script the language is written.
		Similarly, Microsoft codes are sometimes not script-specific and in cases where a language is not really properly identified without this information, the script information appears as well.
		Please do not contact the Unicode Consortium if the ISO 639 language names are not what you believe they should be.
	www.unicode.org /unicode/onlinedat/languages.html (394 words)

	WWW Virtual Library Sri Lanka : Semantic changes of Sinhala Language
		Semantic change is evident in Sinhala from the earliest times, even before the language came to be established in the island around the middle part of the first millennium B.C. Take for instance, the Sinhala word ganga which is a general term meaning river.
		Just as the sounds of words change in a language, so do meanings, depending on the context in which they come to be used.
		Divehi, the language of the Maldive Islanders which branched off from Sinhala around the 6th-8th centuries has however managed to retain the older sense since godan in that language means wheat.
	www.lankalibrary.com /books/semantics.htm (1615 words)

	Maldives Airports Company Limited - About Maldives
		Dhivehi is the unique native language spoken by the Maldivians (People of the Republic of Maldives) and it is the official language.
		Many languages (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic) have influenced the development of Dhivehi from the beginning.
		The language must have originated from the first settlers of the Maldives and evolved over time with the influence of different visitors who frequented the Maldives.
	www.airports.com.mv /about_maldive1/divehidictionary.htm (203 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		The Divehi language, its script and the cultural values and practices that are the foundation of present-day Maldive culture were a product of that period.
		When one reads books of Islamic history, one of the most common assertions is that in a particular country "before Islam there was Jahiliya, the age of ignorance." According to this manner of interpreting facts, history is rewritten in a manner where truth and serious historical inquiry become irrelevant.
		The flourishing of a genuinely Maldive Buddhist civilization, on which the present-day Divehi language, customs, manners and ceremonies are still largely based, is deliberately ignored.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/maldives/mv_civilizations.cfm (543 words)

	Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Majid's Pages- Minicoy Island Website
		Both Tamil and Malayalam are Dravidian languages spoken in the southern parts of mainland India.
		This language is spoken by the Maldive islanders to the south.
		It is the national and official language of the Maldives.
	www.maldivesroyalfamily.com /minicoy.shtml (930 words)

	South Asian Media Net
		The Divehi people are also known as Maldivians or Maldive Islanders.
		The word ‘Divehi’ is derived from ‘dvip’, the Sanskrit word for ‘island’.
		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.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/maldives/mv_ethnology.cfm (666 words)

	Unidecode!
		A good example of this process, in a non-Western writing system and its encoding, is Divehi, the language spoken (and written) in the Maldives, an archipelago southwest of India.
		Divehi is written right-to-left, with vowels written as marks over or under the consonants.
		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)

	People (from Maldives) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Maldivians are a mixed people, speaking an Indo-European language called Divehi (the official language); Arabic, Hindi, and English are also spoken.
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		The Albanians and the Greeks speak non-Slavic languages, while the Romanian language is in the Romance language group.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-4498?tocId=4498 (752 words)

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		Besides Divehi, the language of the Maldives, Sinhala is the only Indo-Aryan language geographically separated from the other members of its family, such as Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati spoken in India.
		Tamil, the oldest of the Dravidian languages and Sinhala have coexisted for generations interacting with each other, thus bearing an impact on the phonology, morphology and syntax of Sinhala (Karunatillake, 1984; Disanayaka, 1991) There exists a vast difference between the spoken and the written variety of modern Sinhala.
		The Formal Spoken Sinhala is usually used in speeches, lectures or in the media and the Colloquial Sinhala is the language of ordinary conversation.
	www2.rz.hu-berlin.de /linguistik/institut/Pronouns/AbsPremawardhena.html (603 words)

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	Minicoy Pages- Minicoy Home
		Minicoy has a culture very different from any other island in the Union Territory- dress, language and food are similar to the non-Indian islands to the South.
		The main language spoken in Lakshadweep is Malayalam, a Dravidian language spoken in the southern parts of mainland India.
		It is an Indo-European language called Divehi-bas, sometimes called Mahl, which is written in a script called Thaana-akuru.
	www-personal.une.edu.au /~bluck/maldivesroyalfamily/minicoy.shtml (355 words)

	english to sindhi symbol translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.sindhidirect.com /sindhi-writing/english-to-sindhi-symbol-translation.html (364 words)

	Sinhalese language -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was influenced by Pali, the sacred language of the Sri Lankan Buddhists, and to a lesser degree by Sanskrit.
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		While the mother tongue of the Sinhalese is Sinhala—an Indo-Aryan language—the Tamils speak the Dravidian language of Tamil.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9067940 (672 words)

	Divehi Mathaaran - Online Maldivian Library
		Therefore only ten percent of the land is cultivated, mostly with taro, bananas, coconuts, and other fruit.
		The language used in the Maldives today, is called Dhivehi.
		Spoken only in the Maldives and Maliku (Minicoy) in India, Dhivehi belongs to the Indo-European family of languages.
	www.geocities.com /mataaran2000/en (554 words)

	Majid's Pages - Minicoy, society and culture
		It is an Indo-European language called Mahl-bas, which is written in a script called Thaana-akuru.
		This language is spoken by the Maldive islanders to the south, who call it Divehi-bas.
		Mahl, also known as Divehi, is not an official language of India, but the official language of the Maldives.
	www.maj.s5.com /minicoy.htm (1376 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:SNM
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		It has been superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005).
		No transitional dialects to Sinhalese, which is a separate language.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=SNM (83 words)

	MALDIVIANA - the best safari boat in Maldives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The language using in tourist's area is English.
		Out of the area it is difficult to communicate in English.
		There are a lot of diving centers with professional Instructors speaking different languages.
	www.maldiviana.com /en_index.php (297 words)

	dinka language phrase translation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.dinka.biz /bible-translation/dinka-language-phrase-translation.html (326 words)

	Divehi (Maldivian) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dhivehi (Maldivian) is the national language of the Republic of Maldives, an island nation located in the Indian Ocean south of India and to the west of Sri Lanka.
		Dhivehi is an Indo-Aryan language closely related to Sinhala, and with it forms the southernmost branch.
		As the national language of the Maldives, Dhivehi is fully developed and thriving.
	www.jainpub.com /inc/pdetail?v=1&pid=573 (431 words)

	Maldives: Romero-Frias
		A clear indication of this council's abysmal record in protecting the autochthonous culture is the fact that even its main publication (Faiytura) is used by the government as its mouthpiece for the flurther promotion of the cause of Arabization of the Maldives.
		Meaning 'National Council at the Service of Maldivian Language and History.' Except for the first two which mean 'Divehi language' and were thus completely unavoidable, the other words are in Arabic.
		Such points were called fannu in Divehi, the language of the Maldive Islands, and they were like the 'gates' or 'mouths' through which the village inside the island opened itself to the sea.
	maj.s5.com /maldives_romero_frias.htm (5284 words)

	Dhivehi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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)

	People and Culture (from Maldives) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Male, the capital city, is also the chief urban center, with more than a quarter of the country's population.
		The official language, Divehi, is related to Sinhala, a language of Sri Lanka.
		The Manx, or original inhabitants of the Isle of Man, are struggling to preserve their language and culture.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-235256 (806 words)

	Maldives Royal Family Official Website: Majid's Pages- Feedback on Names
		Ismail (from Arabic), Ishmael (from English), Yishmoel (from Hebrew), Ihimeira (from Maori), Isimeira (from Niuean), Ismaalu (from 20th Century Divehi), Ismeheli (from pre-20th century Divehi) are all transliterations of the same name.
		However it seems to be composed in a dialect of the Maldive language that my family (rather unkindly, according to some) used to refer to as "alhugandu vadaigannavaa bahuruva".
		"Atoll" is arguably one word the Maldive language contributed to English, but lo and behold, those who named this ministry (in 1984 or there abouts) were too embarrassed even to give credit to the Divehi language for this.
	www-personal.une.edu.au /~bluck/maldivesroyalfamily/maldives_name_feedback.shtml (1085 words)

	EU move commendable though belated : Sri Lanka News
		the language of the Maldive Islands, which is written in a script called 'Tana?.
		Yes, Buddhism should be the state language, because the majority of Sri Lankans are Buddhists; however, it will not enjoy the foremost place and patronage.
		Arya/Dravida race and language schisms were bluffs built by the British to divide and dominate all Hindu/Buddhist civilisations.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/2005/9/3766_12.html (1681 words)

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