Learn Dhivehi -1

Dhivehi is the national language of Maldives and is an indo Aryan language spoken by around 350,000 Maldivians and nearly 10,000 people of Minicoiy Island. It is also called as Dhivehi bas in which the word Dhivehi means Islanders and bas means language.

In earlier the language is used to be written in Eveyla akuru and Dhives akuru. But now the Maldivians use new script called Thaana.

Learn Dhivehi is just a simple task. You need to learn only 24 letters of the alphabet and 9 vowels and their pronunciation.

Before you start to read, download the default dhivehi font via this link and install it to your system.

After installation you must restart the computer.

Haa	ހ
Shaviyani	ށ
Noonu	ނ
Raa	ރ
Baa	ބ
Lhaviyani You may feel difficult to pronounce this letter. So follow these steps. Try to say laviyani. When you say la, just fold the tongue directly upward, then automatically your pronunciation will be the actual sound of lha	ޅ
Kaafu	ކ
Alifu	އ
Vaavu	ވ
Meemu	މ
Faafu	ފ
Dhaalu (the sound of Dh is exactly the sound of th in the)	ދ
Thaa	ތ
Laamu	ލ
Gaafu	ގ
Naviyani	ޏ
Seenu	ސ
Daviyani	ޑ
Zaviyani	ޒ
Taviyani	ޓ
Yaviani	ޔ
Paviyani	ޕ
Javiyani	ޖ
Chaviyani	ޗ

Name of vowels	Vowels
Abafili	ަ
Ibifili	ި
Aabaafili	ާ
Eebeefili	ީ
Ubufili	ު
Ebefili	ެ
Ooboofili	ޫ
Eybeyfili	ޭ
Sukun	ް
Obofili	ޮ
Ooboafili	ޯ