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	Thaana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is an abugida, with vowels derived from the vowel diacritics of the Arabic abjad.
		The origins of Thaana are unique among the world's alphabets: The first nine letters (h–v) are derived from the Arabic numerals, whereas the next nine (m–d) were the local Indic numerals.
		This means that Thaana is one of the few alphabets not derived graphically from the original Semitic alphabet — unless the Indic numerals were (see Brahmi numerals).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thaana (334 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Abugida (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		An abugida is to be contrasted with a syllabary, where symbols with similar sounds look nothing like one another, but also to be contrasted with an alphabet proper, where separate symbols are used to denote the consonants and the vowels.
		Thaana is also like an abugida in that vowels are marked with diacritics.
		That is, it is equivalent to an abjad with obligatory vowel marking, like the Arabic alphabet as used for Kurdish in Iraq, as is thus essentially alphabetic.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Abugida (1230 words)

	Monotype Imaging: Non-Latin Font Info
		Thaana is an alphabetic script consisting of symbols for 24 basic consonants and 10 vowels.
		In contrast to Arabic writing, Thaana letters are never joined to their neighbors, and their shapes remain unvaried regardless of context.
		In a typical Thaana newspaper, one will see a smattering of words written in Arabic alongside the Thaana text, making it clear that the Maldivian populace is also familiar with Arabic script.
	www.monotypeimaging.com /ProductsServices/wt_info.aspx?type=thaana (323 words)

	The Republic of Maldives
		Given the wide dispersion of islands, it is not surprising that the vocabulary and pronunciation vary from atoll to atoll, with the difference being more significant in the dialects spoken in the southernmost atolls.
		The Maldivian script known as thaana was invented during the 16th century soon after the country was liberated from Protuguese rule.
		From infancy children are taught the Arabic alphabet.
	www.srithaisuperware.com /maldives/PEOPLE.HTML (315 words)

	Sunway Maldives
		Given the wide dispersion of islands it is not surprising that the vocabulary and pronunciation vary from atoll to atoll, with the difference being more significant in the dialects spoken in the southern atolls.
		The Maldivian script known as thaana was invented during the 16th century soon after the country was liberated from the Portuguese rule.
		Several thaana fonts are available for use on the computer.
	www.sunwaymaldives.com /culture.htm (694 words)

	Local Font for SMS Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The origins of Thaana are unique among the world's alphabets: The first nine letters (h-v) are derived from the Arabic numerals, whereas the next nine (m-d) were the local Indic numerals.
		The remaining letters for loanwords (z-ch) and Arabic transliteration are derived from phonetically similar native consonants by means of diacritics, with the exception of y, which is of unknown origin.
		This means that Thaana is one of the few alphabets not derived graphically from the original Semitic alphabet.
	www.cellular-news.com /story/17853_print.php (211 words)

	Thaana/Dhivehi Computing Information (Penn State)
		Thaana is unusual in the South Asia region because it is written right to left and includes characters from both the Arabic script and South Asian scripts.
		As of version 10.3, Apple does not provide a Thaana keyboard, but there is a freeware Thaana OS X keyboard utility available, which works in Unicode aware applications like Microsoft Office 2004 or Text Edit.
		Unless a keyboard which supports Unicode is installed, you must use the Unicode chart for Thaana and enter HTML entity codes.
	tlt.its.psu.edu /suggestions/international/bylanguage/thaana.html (871 words)

	Thaana (Maldivian) script
		The Thaana script was developed during the 16th century by an unknown inventor.
		It first appeared in government documents in 1703 and replaced an older alphabet known as Dhives akuru.
		Some of the Taana letters were derived from Dhives akuru, while others were modelled on Arabic numerals.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/thaana.htm (350 words)

	Dhivehi thaana - reading and writing the Maldivian language
		Thaana is a simplified Arabic-style script, unique to the Dhivehi language, adopted by the Maldivian government over 400 years ago.
		Thaana is not difficult to learn because it is written as separate letters.
		Thaana is written from right to left, so the letters are written from the right.
	www.maldivesculture.com /thaana01.html (169 words)

	[b-hebrew] linguistics, was Re: Prov. 30:19
		Eblaite didn?t (though that?s unfair, as Eblaite predated the earliest surviving examples of Hebrew alphabet), Ethiopic didn?t, Arabic didn?t.
		And you referred to a phonetic alphabet when I presume you meant a phonemic alphabet.
		if they had different sounds, phones, not indicated by their limited alphabet, but they were not phonemically significant until later.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/b-hebrew/2003-October/016550.html (686 words)

	Avestan alphabet and language
		The Avestan alphabet was created in the 3rd century AD for writing the hymns of Zarathustra (a.k.a Zoroaster).
		Many of the letters are derived from the old Pahlavi alphabet of Persia, which itself was derived from the Aramaic alphabet.
		The Avestan alphabet was replaced by the Arabic alphabet after Persia converted to Islam during the 7th century AD.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/avestan.htm (153 words)

	Thaana - Indopedia, the Indological knowledgebase
		It shows clear influences from Arabic, but whereas Arabic has numerous forms for every letter, Thaana has one form for each letter.
		The letter alifu has three main uses: It can act as a carrier for a vowel with no preceding consonant; when it carries a sukun, it indicates gemination (lengthening) of the following consonant; and if alifu+sukun occurs at the end of a word, it indicates that the word ends in /eh/.
		External links: A brief description of Thaana is available at this website (http://www.maldivesculture.com/thaana01.html)
	www.indopedia.org /Thaana.html (263 words)

	Maldives Airports Company Limited - About Maldives
		Traces of an earlier script, known as Eveylaa Akuru (ancient letters) have also been found.
		After the Islamic conversion of the Maldives in 1153, Dhives akuru was replaced a new, Arabic-influenced alphabet known as
		Maldivian), an Indo-Ayran language spoken by the people of the Maldives.
	www.airports.com.mv /about_maldive1/divehi/historyofdivehi.htm (282 words)

	[No title]
		How those colours are defined and used is specified by two files, the alphabet file (Example) and the colour file (example).
		The alphabet file specifies by numbers between 1 and 242 which colours each letter and group in the alphabet should have.
		1) The colour scheme and alphabet are pretty intimately related, so a possible method would be to have the alphabet file be turned into an augmented file that specifies the alphabet and the colours too.
	www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk /dasher/websource/english/development~ (8065 words)

	Index of /dasher/download/alphabets
		tail -5 See EXCLUDELIST and TARCOMMAND /home/ftp/pub/www/dasher/download/alphabets In this public directory, most of the alphabet files are intended for public distribution with the dasher executable.
		Exceptions are alphabet.Joyo.xml alphabet.Japanese.xml alphabet.arabicCRASH.xml alphabet.test.xml alphabet.bliss.xml alphabet-kanji-stroke.xml We need to add to this directory Kaburagi's new Japanese alphabet file, and the finalized Chinese alphabet file (expected Aug 2005).
		At that point we can perhaps remove some of the current chinese alphabet files.
	www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk /dasher/download/alphabets?D=D (178 words)

	Coptic Unicode Fonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Coptic alphabet is a historical adaptation of the Greek alphabet with additional letters based on Egyptian Demotic script.
		The alphabet came into general use in the 4th centery CE.
		It is employed primarily to write Coptic, which is now used only as a liturgical language (by Coptic Christians).
	www.travelphrases.info /gallery/Fonts_Coptic.html (883 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Thaana
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Thaana" at HighBeam.
		Dhiraagu introduces Thaana font for SMS service.(Short messaging service)(Brief article)
		More information is at your fingertips at HighBeam Research:
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Thaana (114 words)

	Editing Subtitles in Other Languages [Archive] - Doom9's Forum
		Those tools must be very expensive (I guess) and I really wanna know if it will have a way to create, edit, timing and syncronize subtitles using alternatives (freewares, if it's possible) programs.
		I was wondering HOW other people around the world could edit and create their subtitles, considering that many alphabets are very different than occidental ones.
		I really apreciate study other languages and really wanna know how to work with different languages and alphabets, like hebrew, arabic, chinese and different ones.
	forum.doom9.org /archive/index.php/t-83216.html (548 words)

	ColorPallet.com - The People and Language
		Tour guides speak a host of languages including German, Italian and Japanese.
		The Maldivian script is known as Thaana used since the 16th century.
		Archeological records indicate that the first visitors to the Maldives stepped ashore over 5000 years ago, first colonized according to folklore by an Indo-Aryan race.
	www.colorpallet.com /people.html (81 words)

	South Asian Media Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Codes used in census reports by the Ministry of Planning and Local Development.
		The names of most of the atolls are simply the names of letters of the Thaana alphabet.
		Thaana is used to write Dhivehi, the language of the Maldives, and is related to both the Arabic and Devanagari alphabets.
	www.southasianmedia.net /profile/maldives/mv_districtprofiles.cfm (237 words)

	{ uninspired insanity } » Thaana Font for SMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Maldives GSM operator, Dhiraagu has launched a service that uses the local Thaana font for Short Message Service (SMS).
		You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.
		Dhiraagu said that downloading thaana sms will cost u RF20!
	www.heyambo.com /ijaa/?p=38 (255 words)

	ISO/IEC JTC 1 N/SC 2 N
		Scope: A set of character names, code positions, and typical graphic symbols, for additional characters in the Bopomofo collection, and other existing collections of specialist symbols and alphabetic scripts, a total of 42 characters
		Scope: A set of 49 character names, code positions, and typical graphic symbols, for the Thaana script.
		Revision of ISO 8859-2: 1987, Part2: Latin alphabet No.
	anubis.dkuug.dk /jtc1/sc2/open/02n3121.htm (1447 words)

	SC 2 N 3102
		Revision of ISO 8859-2: 1987, Latin alphabet No. 2
		Revision of ISO 8859-3: 1988, Latin alphabet No. 3
		Revision of ISO 8859-4: 1988, Latin alphabet No. 4
	anubis.dkuug.dk /jtc1/sc2/open/02n3102.htm (917 words)

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	Maldives Hotels Maldives accommodation discount and cheap Hotels in Maldives
		Maldives is a country of Asia made up of 1 196 islands, including 203 inhabited, located at approximately 450 km in the south of Deccan.
		The islands are gathered in 19 atolls carrying each one the name of one or two letters of the Maldives alphabet -Thaana writing.
		Book online hotels in Maldives from the UK with
	athensguide.org /hotel-accommodation/maldives/hotels-in-maldives.html (76 words)

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