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Dhivehi: The Language of the Maldives

Dhivehi: The Language of the Maldives

David, Anne
Gnanadesikan, Amalia E.

Hardcover

Series: Mouton-Casl Grammar Series [Mcasl], Book 3

Indic LanguagesLinguistics

ISBN10: 161451304X
ISBN13: 9781614513049
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Dec 5 2016
Pages: 363
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.60
Language: English
dhivehi (Maldivian), the national language of the Maldives, has received very little attention in the linguistic literature. With Sinhala (Sinhalese) Dhivehi constitutes a branch of the Indo-Aryan languages that shows a number of features unusual within the Indo-Aryan group, such as a lack of contrastive aspiration, prenasalized stops, and a lack of relative pronouns. Dhivehi also displays features unknown to Sinhala, such as a nonverbal copula and an associative plural, as well as its own unique alphabet, Thaana.

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