Old Dhivehi | |
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![]() Dhanbidhoo Loamaafaanu (1195 CE) is written in the Old Dhivehi language | |
Region | Maldives |
Era | 12-13th century CE |
Indo-European
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Eveylaa akuru (older variant of Dhives Akuru) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Old Dhivehi is the earliest attested form of the Maldivian language, recorded in Loamaafaanu in the 12th and 13th centuries CE and various Buddhist texts beginning from the 6th century CE. It is the ancestral form which gave rise to the modern northern dialect of the Dhivehi language. Old dhivehi belongs to Indo-Aryan branch of wider Indo-European language family.
No endonym for the language is known. However the language may have been called "Dhuvesi" or "Dhivesi" meaning "Islander", which has evolved into the endonym for the modern language.[1]
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