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I'm searching for someone who can help me to translate french in maldivien.
you can see the complet answer in forum-french
thanks a lot

Are there any sources at all for this language? I haven't found any online..

What's with that egguitis now?

Never heard about Maldivian, post some info for us.

E}{pugnator wrote:What's with that egguitis now?

When I saw that you have posted I was sure you would have discovered something.. you've disappointed me . Anyway, who said that I want to study it? I just want to see how it looks like and how it functions.

Never heard about Maldivian, post some info for us.

Dhivehi in wikipedia

It's interesting that it is an Indoeuropean language although southern India is dominated by Dravidian languages. Dhivehi's closest relative is Sinhala

You really pick truly obscure ones, don't you wantok bilong mi

I did a little search in the library and found a slim descriptive grammar. From what I saw there, Dhivehi is rather a typical Indo-Aryan language. I don't know how much of this would be intelligible to Northern Indians, but I remember a Hindi speaker (sage) saying Sinhala was somewhat intelligible at least in its transcribed Roman form.

Another thing I noticed about Thaana is that its letters correspond rather well with Arabic, it even has an equivalent of ayn, which is kind of unusual in Indian languages. My guess is that it's due to the trade and the influence from Arabic. It even writes right to left, again unusual for Indian languages. The more ancient variant of the script, Dhives Akuru, bears some strong resemblences with the South Indian scripts (e.g. Sinhala) but Thaana really doesn't.

Now ego, get back to Tongan *kicks his arse*

For some reason island nations and languages fascinate me.. Besides I always wanted to study an Indian (and Indoeuropean) language, I just don't know which one.
Anyway for the moment I'm enough with Latin, ancient Greek and revision of Tongan. And I already miss Hebrew, although I'll go back to it as soon as possible.
Does Dhivehi have cases? Conjugations? Colloquial Sinhala doesn't conjugate verbs

http://www.maldivesculture.com/main.html

A link with English-Dhivehi-English dictionary.

http://www.maldivesculture.com/thaana01.html

Thaana script page, from the same site.

http://www.addis-welt.de/divehi.html

Short Divehi-English phrasebook with introduction in German.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahal_language

Mahal/Mahl is a variant of Dhivehi and there seems to be more information on this one. It seems like they're often thought to be the same language with somewhat different lexical items, so this should help you.

http://samus.securehbs.com/~mathaara/en/index.html

Mahl language guide. Not ver complete at the moment.

As for your question, I'll have to look it up later.

YEAH, anybody knows where can you learn this beautiful language?
I am trying to learn the script, but I could nto find anything on the language.

Sorry, wrong thread I opened.

The link don't work
one shows German porn.

Check here

I just thought I'd post two songs in Divehi here. These are the two songs in Divehi that I'm most familiar with. The first one is called "Asthaa Huree" (I nominated it for an FSC no one voted for along with a Xhosa song, after which the FSC died for months and the songs in that particular contest were eventually taken out of the "used songs" list) and the second one is called "Jaazbi Asaru." I think the clip in the second video is from some Indian movie, but I forget which one and in which language it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa1EUH-oOX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rltiA_bwPhk

This is another song I've heard in Dhivehi before and like. It's called "Maazee Handhaan Kuraathi Fikuru" and is performed by a singer named Hussain Ali:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoVGp72d6Ik
These are some Dhivehi songs featuring a traditional dance called "Bodu Beru." According to the video description, the songs and dance are similar to some of those found in East Africa and were probably introduced to the Maldives by sailors in the Indian Ocean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzOab0ZEtxg

These are two more Dhivehi songs. One is from this year; it's called "Loabikan" and is sung by Ibrahim Zaid Ali (Ibbe) a.k.a. Kuda Ibbe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4QuuA_t4Fo
The other one is from a channel that has a lot of songs from a style that's called langeri. It's performed by dancers holding fake flowers and drummers, all of whom sing together as they dance or drum. This example is from 2010 (I found this channel many years ago, and I think I was introduced to this genre by this video of a song called "Seedha engihuregen"). The video description has more information on langeri and the performers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rdvEFLbAcg

A list of select animal species (Dhivehi-Latin-English-Czech)
The Dhivehi Language: A Descriptive and Historical Grammar of Maldivian and Its Dialects (PDF)
English-Dhivehi Dhivehi-English Dictionary (PDF. No Thaana script, unfortunately)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Dhivehi (contains a PDF file, but no audio)
A General Overview of Dhivehi Language (PDF)
Naananaa (a pretty long Dhivehi lullaby song)

Thanks, atalarikt!

This is apparently the staff of Air Maldives performing their theme song. It's sort of a medley, I guess, since there's another tune that starts towards the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_p4BYXoboA
This is a song called "Mahey Nethidhaaney." It sounds like it's kind of a pop song or something. Apparently, it's supposed to be a humorous song IIRC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odhb3O9eYNs
And these are two more bodu benus or bodu beru-inspired songs. One is called "Baarah Dhuvva":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqvboZRkvC0
The other is called "Ramzu Mio Gaumee":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ9aaqQ4Lak