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ISO 639-3 · divdiv
Indo-European family
Maldivian
ދިވެހި
Maldivian is a language of the Indo-Aryan branch (Indo-European), spoken in Maldives and India. Wikidata counts about 340,500 speakers (2012). Wikidata describes it as “Indo-Aryan national language of the Maldives”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
div- ISO 639-1
dv- Glottocode
dhiv1236- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 1 National
- Centre point
- 4.18, 73.51
- Wikipedia
- 97 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
2scripts
3levels in the tree
1EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Maldivian · ދިވެހި |
|---|---|
| Also called | Dhivehi language, Maldivian language, Dhivehi, Divehi |
| All speakers | 340,500 (2012) |
| Written in | Thaana, Dhives Akuru |
| Official in | Maldives |
| Grammatical cases | 7 listed in Wikidata |
Vitality
EGIDS 1 National1
Institutional. Used in government, education and media — EGIDS 0 to 4.
Other languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Maldivian
The branches above Maldivian, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
