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Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Maldivian, Dhivehi
SOURCE
Human Rights Commission of the Maldives, Maldives
Maldivian, Dhivehi
Language Profile
TOTAL SPEAKERS
About 350,000 people in the Maldives
USAGE BY COUNTRY (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE)
Maldives, India
BACKGROUND
Maldivian is an Indo-Aryan language closely related to the Sinhalese language of Sri Lanka. Maldivian represents the southernmost Indo-Aryan language. Together with Sinhala, Maldivian represents a subgroup within the Modern Indo-Aryan languages which is called Insular Indo-Aryan. However, Sinhala and Maldivian are not mutually intelligible.
Maldivian is descended from the Maharashtri Prakrit of ancient and medieval India. These Prakrits were originally derived from Old Indo-Aryan vernaculars related to Vedic Sanskrit.