Maldivian, Dhivehi
关于该语文
总发言人数
About 350,000 people in the Maldives
按國家使用(官方語言)
Maldives, India
背景
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.