A Maldivian Dictionary

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Psychology Press, 2003 - Foreign Language Study - 412 pages
Maldivian (also known as Divehi) is spoken on the Maldive Islands located off the southwest tip of India in the Indian Ocean. It is an Indo-Aryan language, formerly written in a script resembling Sinhalese script. After the islands became exclusively Islamic, it was found convenient to design a script reading from right to left, so that Arabic words could be accommodated in Maldivian sentences. An official scheme of roman transliteration for Maldivian was adopted by the Maldive government in the 1970s. This Maldivian-English Dictionary consists of 5000 individual entries.
 

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About the author (2003)

Christopher Reynolds received his BA degree in 1948 from Oxford University. He was Lecturer in Sinhalese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, between 1953-87. After spending four months in the capital city of Malé, he made a special study of the Maldivian language (Dihevi) in 1967, before the country was generally open to foreigners.

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TitleA Maldivian Dictionary
AuthorChristopher Hanby Baillie Reynolds
Compiled byChristopher Hanby Baillie Reynolds
Editionrevised
PublisherPsychology Press, 2003
ISBN0415298083, 9780415298087
Length412 pages
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