Langenesis

Indo-European family

Dhivehi

c. 1000 CE – today Living

Dhivehi (c. 1000 CE – today) is a living Indo-European language. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Indo-Iranian → … → Sinhala Prakrit → Sinhala → Dhivehi.

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Speakers
340K (340,000)
ISO 639-3
div
Glottocode
dhiv1236

Maldivian. Split from Medieval Sinhala around the 10th–12th c.; earliest texts are the lōmāfānu copper plates (12th–13th c.). Written in Thaana.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Indo-Iranianc. 2,500 BCE – 1,800 BCE
  3. Proto-Indo-Aryanc. 1,800 BCE – 1,500 BCE
  4. Vedic Sanskritc. 1,500 BCE – 500 BCE
  5. Sinhala Prakritc. 300 BCE – 400 CE
  6. Sinhala400 CE – today
  7. Dhivehic. 1000 CE – today

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