Dhivehi: The Language of the Maldives

"dhivehi (Maldivian), the national language of the Maldives, has received very little attention in the linguistic literature. With Sinhala (Sinhalese) Dhivehi constitutes a branch of the Indo-Aryan languages that shows a number of features unusual within the Indo-Aryan group, such as a lack of...

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Beteilige Person: Gnanadesikan, Amalia E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berlin ;Boston De Gruyter Mouton [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Mouton-CASL Grammar Series 3
Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512349
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512349
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512349
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512349
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512349
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512349
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512349
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512349
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614512349
Zusammenfassung:"dhivehi (Maldivian), the national language of the Maldives, has received very little attention in the linguistic literature. With Sinhala (Sinhalese) Dhivehi constitutes a branch of the Indo-Aryan languages that shows a number of features unusual within the Indo-Aryan group, such as a lack of contrastive aspiration, prenasalized stops, and a lack of relative pronouns. Dhivehi also displays features unknown to Sinhala, such as a nonverbal copula and an associative plural, as well as its own unique alphabet, Thaana.Based on both fieldwork and corpus research, this grammar provides comprehensive coverage of the phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax of standard written and spoken Dhivehi. The plentiful examples provide native Thaana orthography, Roman transliteration, and morpheme-by-morpheme glossing along with free translations.Written in an accessible style from a theory-neutral perspective, this work will be of use to linguistic researchers, language scholars, and students of Dhivehi."
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016)
Umfang:1 online resource (363 Seiten)
ISBN:9781501500763
9781614512349
9781614512356
DOI:10.1515/9781614512349