What a joke! Sinhalese cannot understand Dhivehi. Dhivehi is totally different from Sinhala language. Only "some" words are similar. Maybe you have studied Dhivehi language. That is why, you understood something.
This is the official dialect, there are about 20 atolls, and each atoll speaks a different dialect, some dialects are very difficult to understand, so whenever we speak to someone from another atoll or in an official conversation, we use the official dialect
Maldivian (ދިވެހި) Maldivian is an Indo-Aryan language spoken main in the Maldives, and also in India by about 340,500 people. In 2012 there were 331,000 speakers of Maldivian in the Maldives, where it is a statutory national language. In India Maldivian has about 9,500 speakers, mainly in Minicoy Island (Maliku), part of the Union territory of Lakshadweep, and also in the state of Kerala. Maldivian is also known as Dhivehi, Divehli, Mali, Malikh or Malki. Native names are ދިވެހި (Divehi), and ދިވެހިބަސް (Divehi-bas). Major dialects of Maldivian are Malé, Huvadhu, Mulaku, Addu, Haddhunmathee and Maliku. The Malé dialect of the Maldivian capital is considered the standard. In Minicoy the Maliku dialect is spoken and is known as Mahl or Maliku bas. Maldivian is closely related to, though not mutually intelligible with, Sinhalese. It has been influenced by and aborbed words from languages such as Arabic, French, Persian, Portuguese, Urdu and English. Written Maldivian The Thaana script was developed during the 18th century by an unknown inventor. It first appeared in government documents in 1703 and replaced an older alphabet known as Dives akuru.
As far as I understand, Dhivehi is the farthest southern geopolitically indigenous distinct Indo-European Language in the world, the farthest east being Assamese I believe, and prior to the age of discovery, the long since extinct Greenlandic Norse was the farthest northern Indo-European language, that is a massively large historical geographic range.
@Toonimation Rohingya is not bengali wtf! The ruainga language is unique from Bengali. It has it’s own phrases and phrases similar to words in hindi, farsi and arabic
@@KrisP408 There's a difference. There 3 Rohingya dialects and each are similar but distinct. I am a Rohingya from Maungdaw and our dialect has much more closeness to Farsi and Hindi, dialects spoken by Rohingyas from Buthidaung is exactly Chittagonian bengali dialect and Ruainga dialect spoken by those from Eastern Rakhine state is very different from the Northern and is known to be the oldest for it's closeness to Sanskrit and Avestan persian.
it’s referred to as a daughter language of sinhalese though there isn’t enough evidence to prove it, but yeah. sinhalese and maldives branch off the same mother language so they sound similiar.
Maldivian,also known by its endonym Dhivehi or Divehi (ދިވެހި, Dhivehi pronunciation: [diˈʋehi]), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the South Asian island country of Maldives[6] and on Minicoy Island, Lakshadweep, union territory of India. The Maldivian language has notable dialects. The standard dialect is that of the capital city, Malé. The greatest dialectal variation is from the southern atolls Huvadu, Addu and Fuvahmulah of Maldives. Each of those atolls has its own dialect closely related to each other but very different from the northern atolls. The southern atoll dialects are so distinct that those only speaking northern dialects cannot understand them. The ethnic endonym for the language, Divehi, is occasionally found in English as Dhivehi (spelled according to the locally used Malé Latin for romanization of the Maldivian language), which is the official spelling as well as the common usage in the Maldives. Maldivian is written in Thaana script. Maldivian is a descendant of Elu Prakrit and is closely related to Sinhalese, but not mutually intelligible with it. Many languages have influenced the development of Maldivian through the ages. They include Arabic, French, Persian, Portuguese, Hindustani, and English. The English words atoll (a ring of coral islands or reefs) and dhoni (a vessel for inter-atoll navigation) are anglicised forms of the Maldivian words atoḷu and dōni. Before the European expansion, it was the southernmost Indo-European language
Omg.. Most of word equal to Singhala wich is oficial in sri lanka... And I can find out devehi peoples similerities among Singhalease also. Divehi means by singhala is "in Island". Dive = Island. 1-10 all the numbers are 99% same to singhala. 1 = eka 2 deka 3 thuna 4 hathara 5 paha 6 haya 7 hatha 8 ata 9 namaya 10 dahaya ect. Mage means my in both language 100% same. Ambi means wife. It is called in singhala as " Ambu" Iru use as Hiru. Kurumba = kurumba Gopalu = gopalu And so many words... Specialy, Maldivians use uniq syembols for Numbers, and those are totaly same to old Singhala numeric syembols also.... Gas (tree) use as Gas.. 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Amaizing. I didnt know Divehi is so close to singhala like this.
Both Sinhala and Dhivehi are Indo-Aryan languages. Dhivehi has similarities with Hindi, Arabic too. Only few words are similar to Sinhala!!! Maldivian people may look like Sri Lankan or South Indian people as you mentioned. It is a normal thing. Actually, Maldivian people are somewhat different from South Indian and Sri Lankan people. 9 = Nava/Navaya in Sinhala. Not "Namaya". Wife = Bhaaryaa/Patnii in Sinhala. Nobody says "Ambu" as you mentioned in your comment.
I am a native Sinhala speaker and just realised this Divehi language sounds very similar to my language . How come? Almost same words, same souds but a difference dialect?
That's because there are some borrowed words from Arab but pronounce differently and sound like German may be because we have some letters pronounce from deep throat.
"Our 'only' sister language"? What??? Sanskrit is the mother of all Indo-Aryan languages and Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Odia, Urdu, etc are sister languages of Sinhala. Not only Dhivehi!
Both sinhala and dhivehi evolved from "Elu". Elu is a tamil +Prakrit mixed language . "Eelam" the tamil word derived as Elu (elu language means language of the island during 3rd century BCE)This was confirmed by scholars.Since dhivehi was seperated and isolated to Maldives ,it developed as a different unique language but still has many Tamil words in it.Its nice!
Lol Lakshanese haha, you can google search you know, its easy. Lakshadweep speaks Malayalam, its a Dravidian language also spoken in Kerala. Only the southernmost Lakshadweep island-Minicoy speaks Dhivehi.
@@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් dude watch the Asian languages or go to Google and search Sri Lanka language so you can find the Sinhala language " there is nothing like Sinhala " Sinhala is a language
@@muslimfrance8756 Mate, It seems like you did not read my reply properly. Read it again and understand what I have mentioned above. I am from Sri Lanka. I am a native Sinhala speaker. My language is an Indo-Iranian language. ( Indo-Aryan ) This Dhivehi language is "NOT SIMILAR" to Sinhala language. As a Sinhalese, I can say that. 💯
Dhivehi Language is not only Male' dialect. If this is the approach then it is an injustice to the language. I am going to home. Mama gedhera yanava. Ma mi iyannoo gey dhorate. The Huvadhoo dialect in Maldives, is more closer to the cousin of dhivehi language, Sihalese spoken in Sri Lanka. History says Sri Lankan were one of very first people, if not the first who migrated to the Maldivian Island. Maldives and Sri Lanka, shares more in common than with any other part of the world.
I do not know why some blind and deaf people say "Dhivehi is 'very' similar to Sinhala", "It sounds like Sinhala" 🙄😂 This is nothing like Sinhala! Completely different!
hey are you native sinhalese? I want lyrics for a sinhala dubbed song please help me put it's so hard to find native sinhala speakers online who are willing to help
Finally Dhivehi arrived!!!! Thank you so much for bringing Dhivehi 🙏 🇲🇻
OMG...I'm from srilanka and I can sometimes understand while just listening
Oh my god SAME! Their language is so similar to Sinhala
What a joke!
Sinhalese cannot understand Dhivehi.
Dhivehi is totally different from Sinhala language.
Only "some" words are similar.
Maybe you have studied Dhivehi language. That is why, you understood something.
This is the official dialect, there are about 20 atolls, and each atoll speaks a different dialect, some dialects are very difficult to understand, so whenever we speak to someone from another atoll or in an official conversation, we use the official dialect
@@byron-ih2ge extinct mostly. we use thaana script now
One of the unique #Scripts of world!
I`m impressed by the writing system too. So unique !
These are numbers in our language 1-eka ,2-deka,3-thuna,4-hathara,5-paha,6-haya,7-hatha,8-ata,9-namaya,10-dahaya
9 = nava/navaya in Sinhala. Not "Namaya".
My first impression: The writing itself looks arabic/urdu, the speaking sounds like tamil/hindi.
looks like a Singala dialect
Indo-european islanders 🇲🇻
yass
actually theyre language is branched off from tamil or south indian languages?
@@introtwerp no it didn't. Its related to sinhalese of Sri Lanka. So it's a branch of indo european language.
@@introtwerp but it might have lots of loan words from tamil because of the influence
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Maldivian (ދިވެހި)
Maldivian is an Indo-Aryan language spoken main in the Maldives, and also in India by about 340,500 people. In 2012 there were 331,000 speakers of Maldivian in the Maldives, where it is a statutory national language. In India Maldivian has about 9,500 speakers, mainly in Minicoy Island (Maliku), part of the Union territory of Lakshadweep, and also in the state of Kerala.
Maldivian is also known as Dhivehi, Divehli, Mali, Malikh or Malki. Native names are ދިވެހި (Divehi), and ދިވެހިބަސް (Divehi-bas).
Major dialects of Maldivian are Malé, Huvadhu, Mulaku, Addu, Haddhunmathee and Maliku. The Malé dialect of the Maldivian capital is considered the standard. In Minicoy the Maliku dialect is spoken and is known as Mahl or Maliku bas.
Maldivian is closely related to, though not mutually intelligible with, Sinhalese. It has been influenced by and aborbed words from languages such as Arabic, French, Persian, Portuguese, Urdu and English.
Written Maldivian
The Thaana script was developed during the 18th century by an unknown inventor. It first appeared in government documents in 1703 and replaced an older alphabet known as Dives akuru.
As far as I understand, Dhivehi is the farthest southern geopolitically indigenous distinct Indo-European Language in the world, the farthest east being Assamese I believe, and prior to the age of discovery, the long since extinct Greenlandic Norse was the farthest northern Indo-European language, that is a massively large historical geographic range.
No, Rohingya is the easternmost native Indo-European language.
@@r.m.pereira5958 no assamese is easternmost ..check the map
@Toonimation Rohingya is not bengali wtf! The ruainga language is unique from Bengali. It has it’s own phrases and phrases similar to words in hindi, farsi and arabic
@@KrisP408 There's a difference. There 3 Rohingya dialects and each are similar but distinct. I am a Rohingya from Maungdaw and our dialect has much more closeness to Farsi and Hindi, dialects spoken by Rohingyas from Buthidaung is exactly Chittagonian bengali dialect and Ruainga dialect spoken by those from Eastern Rakhine state is very different from the Northern and is known to be the oldest for it's closeness to Sanskrit and Avestan persian.
Wow.i know nepali but this is totally unique from indo aryan languages.
Lakshadweep islands in India speak similar language
Jehiel Hernández only Minicoy island in Lakshadweep. They speak a dialect of dhivehi
@@jehielhernandez8152 no most of Lakshadweep speaks Malayalam, only Minicoy island speaks Dhivehi
Probably because it's influenced by Dravidian languages.
Thank you so much for making this, so useful ❤
Similar to Sinhala Language of Sri Lanka. The old Dhivehi script looked similar to Sinhala Script
There are only few similarities!
I love the writing system!
I'm sri lankan I understood a little.Its pronunciation is just like Tamil
Very familiar to Sri Lankan "Sinhala" Language
"Very" ?
There are only few common words between these two languages.
We can find some similarities because both are Indo-European languages.
I'm a maldivian but now I'm studiying in india
wow. sounds very sweet.
Thank you sir
Like from Sri Lanka.
Sinhala and Divehi is so similar 😍
No!
numbers are same in sinhalese
It is sub languages of sinhalese languages group
Only 1,4,6 and 7
it’s referred to as a daughter language of sinhalese though there isn’t enough evidence to prove it, but yeah. sinhalese and maldives branch off the same mother language so they sound similiar.
@@zee-lj4tg Sound nothing like Sinhala!
Maldivian,also known by its endonym Dhivehi or Divehi (ދިވެހި, Dhivehi pronunciation: [diˈʋehi]), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the South Asian island country of Maldives[6] and on Minicoy Island, Lakshadweep, union territory of India.
The Maldivian language has notable dialects. The standard dialect is that of the capital city, Malé. The greatest dialectal variation is from the southern atolls Huvadu, Addu and Fuvahmulah of Maldives. Each of those atolls has its own dialect closely related to each other but very different from the northern atolls. The southern atoll dialects are so distinct that those only speaking northern dialects cannot understand them.
The ethnic endonym for the language, Divehi, is occasionally found in English as Dhivehi (spelled according to the locally used Malé Latin for romanization of the Maldivian language), which is the official spelling as well as the common usage in the Maldives. Maldivian is written in Thaana script.
Maldivian is a descendant of Elu Prakrit and is closely related to Sinhalese, but not mutually intelligible with it. Many languages have influenced the development of Maldivian through the ages. They include Arabic, French, Persian, Portuguese, Hindustani, and English. The English words atoll (a ring of coral islands or reefs) and dhoni (a vessel for inter-atoll navigation) are anglicised forms of the Maldivian words atoḷu and dōni. Before the European expansion, it was the southernmost Indo-European language
Thank you
The language of the maldives is very similar to the sinhala language of sri lanka 😲 am from sri lanka
It is not a surprise.
Do you not know that Dhivehi is an Indo-European language?
It has similarities with Hindi too.
This language is from the Indo-European branch.
Omg..
Most of word equal to Singhala wich is oficial in sri lanka...
And I can find out devehi peoples similerities among Singhalease also.
Divehi means by singhala is "in Island". Dive = Island.
1-10 all the numbers are 99% same to singhala.
1 = eka
2 deka
3 thuna
4 hathara
5 paha
6 haya
7 hatha
8 ata
9 namaya
10 dahaya ect.
Mage means my in both language 100% same.
Ambi means wife. It is called in singhala as " Ambu"
Iru use as Hiru.
Kurumba = kurumba
Gopalu = gopalu
And so many words...
Specialy, Maldivians use uniq syembols for Numbers, and those are totaly same to old Singhala numeric syembols also....
Gas (tree) use as Gas.. 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Amaizing.
I didnt know Divehi is so close to singhala like this.
Both Sinhala and Dhivehi are Indo-Aryan languages. Dhivehi has similarities with Hindi, Arabic too.
Only few words are similar to Sinhala!!!
Maldivian people may look like Sri Lankan or South Indian people as you mentioned. It is a normal thing.
Actually, Maldivian people are somewhat different from South Indian and Sri Lankan people.
9 = Nava/Navaya in Sinhala. Not "Namaya".
Wife = Bhaaryaa/Patnii in Sinhala. Nobody says "Ambu" as you mentioned in your comment.
Sounds like Sinhalese !
it was a Sinhala dialect but now its very different
But to me Sinhalese sounds like tamil
@@zeehanzubair9604 Are you sure😂😂
It is sub languages of sinhalese languages group
Nope...
Sinhala sounds extremely similar this language 😳
Nice joke! Dhivehi sounds like a very unique language. It developed independently.
take a Maldives in Mojito
Similar to sinhala
This sound similar to formal Sinhalese 😮
I am a native Sinhala speaker and just realised this Divehi language sounds very similar to my language . How come? Almost same words, same souds but a difference dialect?
Well I'm from Maldives so I understand this
Watching this video from Pakistan 💖❤🇵🇰
I am from north india but even I can understand few words
I'm Maldivian🇲🇻
I could spot many similarities with Indian languages along with some Arabic words
i'm a maldivian i wonder how does it sonud to you guys that are to a maldivian
Sometimes Maldivian sound like German, Arab and Japasene.
That's because there are some borrowed words from Arab but pronounce differently and sound like German may be because we have some letters pronounce from deep throat.
Some times it is sound like malayalam,tamil,dravidan languages and like hindi
Many other words are similar to te sinhala language 😲
Not many words!
Only few numbers!
how can just one person speak so many languages? Dhivehi's only a candidate on google translate!
I like Bodhiberu!
May Lord Buddha bless all of you 😊🙏
its like japanese mixed with arabic to me. no resemblance to sinhala except a few words. its supposed to be our only sister language
It sounds like Sinhala to me
"Our 'only' sister language"?
What???
Sanskrit is the mother of all Indo-Aryan languages and Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Punjabi, Odia, Urdu, etc are sister languages of Sinhala.
Not only Dhivehi!
@@jcxkzhgco3050 No.
wow
Some similarities to Sinhalese, I can see.
Only few numbers are similar. Because both of them are Indo-Aryan languages.
ދިވެހި ބަސް
When this language doesn’t speak in google translate on my device: ހޯލްޑް އަޕް ތިޔަ ތަރުޖަމާ ކުރަނީ އަހަރެންގެ ދިވެހީ ބަސްތައް
I only understood shukuriyya cuz I understand Arabic. I was so lost in Male 😂
The letters look like if Arabic would write from the left and the letters wouldn't be together. It's a beautiful script though
Dhivehi is written from right to left like Arabic tho
It is derived from Arabic script as far as I’ve heard
Both sinhala and dhivehi evolved from "Elu". Elu is a tamil +Prakrit mixed language . "Eelam" the tamil word derived as Elu (elu language means language of the island during 3rd century BCE)This was confirmed by scholars.Since dhivehi was seperated and isolated to Maldives ,it developed as a different unique language but still has many Tamil words in it.Its nice!
LOL. Tamil.
Yea. I was wondering the accent is very similar to tamil and every other dravidian languages.
Lol both sinhalese and divahi languages are indu aryan languages
Elu is actually another name for Helu, which is also known as Sinhalese Prakrit.
they just said "مروان"
Mostly in the capital of male Maldives and mostly Lakshadweep. Lakshadweep speaks Hindi Lakshanese or 🤷♀️ i don’t know
Lol Lakshanese haha, you can google search you know, its easy.
Lakshadweep speaks Malayalam, its a Dravidian language also spoken in Kerala. Only the southernmost Lakshadweep island-Minicoy speaks Dhivehi.
@@amlans5314 But I notice that the Dhivehi spoken in Minicoy has a malayalam or tamil accent
@@zeehanzubair9604 yes, they have been influenced by the dravidian languages esp the effect of retroflex.
@@amlans5314 actually Jeseri a dialect of malayalam is spoken in lakshhadweep and sometimes it is unintelligible to malayalam
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Im dhivehi!!!!!!!
Sounds kinda like Sinhala to me
This is nothing like Sinhala language!
Totally different...
@@දුඃඛදුඃඛින් dude watch the Asian languages or go to Google and search Sri Lanka language so you can find the Sinhala language " there is nothing like Sinhala " Sinhala is a language
@@muslimfrance8756 Mate, It seems like you did not read my reply properly. Read it again and understand what I have mentioned above.
I am from Sri Lanka. I am a native Sinhala speaker. My language is an Indo-Iranian language. ( Indo-Aryan )
This Dhivehi language is "NOT SIMILAR" to Sinhala language. As a Sinhalese, I can say that. 💯
Letters like srilanka
The old Dhivehi script was similar to Sinhala script. Whereas the current Dhivehi script is somewhat like Arabic abjad.
@@skanthavelu *arabic abjad
Nope...
@@6i6itjeruk Edited.
No word for goodbye?? so you sorta just... leave?
just the way it should be
Dhivehi Language is not only Male' dialect. If this is the approach then it is an injustice to the language.
I am going to home.
Mama gedhera yanava.
Ma mi iyannoo gey dhorate.
The Huvadhoo dialect in Maldives, is more closer to the cousin of dhivehi language, Sihalese spoken in Sri Lanka. History says Sri Lankan were one of very first people, if not the first who migrated to the Maldivian Island. Maldives and Sri Lanka, shares more in common than with any other part of the world.
Dhivehi to tamil
Any person teach me dhivehi language
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ދކބސފޖދޖ Vivo ފޖދބފކ 😏
An indian and me cant understand dhivehi
It sounds like dravidian language but I don't understand how this language belongs to Indo aryan family
Is Maldives Peoples Came from Rajasthan??
This sounds very much like Dravidian languages.
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Dhivehi sounds like when a a Marathi guy speaking Malayam language...😁😁
Kinda
The sound in this video is not how we Maldivians speak, it sounds like a foreigner speaking Dhivehi, we speak at a faster speed and there is an accent
Descendant of sanskrit
Sounds like tamil
I do not know why some blind and deaf people say "Dhivehi is 'very' similar to Sinhala", "It sounds like Sinhala" 🙄😂
This is nothing like Sinhala!
Completely different!
hey are you native sinhalese? I want lyrics for a sinhala dubbed song please help me put it's so hard to find native sinhala speakers online who are willing to help
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