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.