Maliku Dhivehi

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Maliku Dhivehi is a regional Indo-Aryan language variety closely related to Maldivian Dhivehi, traditionally spoken on Minicoy Island in India.

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Maliku Dhivehi canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indo-Aryan language variety
regional language
closelyRelatedTo Maldivian Dhivehi NERFINISHED
Standard Maldivian Dhivehi NERFINISHED
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicGroup Maliku people NERFINISHED
Minicoy islanders NERFINISHED
geopoliticalContext spoken in Indian territory near Maldives
hasAlternativeName Mahl NERFINISHED
Mahl language NERFINISHED
Maliku Mahl
hasDialects local village-based speech varieties on Minicoy
hasGrammaticalSimilarityWith Maldivian Dhivehi NERFINISHED
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalSimilarityWith Maldivian Dhivehi NERFINISHED
hasWordOrder SOV
historicallyAssociatedWith Maldives NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code mhx
languageContactWith English NERFINISHED
Hindi NERFINISHED
Malayalam
languageFamily Indo-Aryan languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

Indo-Iranian languages
linguisticAncestor Elu Prakrit NERFINISHED
nativeTo Minicoy Island NERFINISHED
primaryCountry India NERFINISHED
region Arabian Sea NERFINISHED
South Asia
scriptDirection right-to-left
sharesLexiconWith Arabic loanwords
Indic loanwords
Maldivian Dhivehi NERFINISHED
Persian loanwords
spokenIn Lakshadweep NERFINISHED
Minicoy Island NERFINISHED
standardFormOf local Dhivehi variety of Minicoy
status minority language in India
subclassOf Dhivehi language NERFINISHED
Indo-Aryan languages NERFINISHED
Maldivian language varieties
usedBy Muslim community of Minicoy NERFINISHED
usedIn local administration on Minicoy Island
oral communication on Minicoy Island
oral storytelling on Minicoy
traditional songs of Minicoy
writingSystem Thaana script NERFINISHED

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Mahl language hasAlternativeName Maliku Dhivehi