Re: The map of typological features

"Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...

John Atkinson wrote:

On the Maldive Royal Family Official Website, there's some discussion (I
don't know how accurate) concerning why the Thaana orthography was
invented.

URL ?

http://www.maldivesroyalfamily.com/maldive_numbers.shtml and elsewhere on
this site.

Note that this website is run by a descendent of the last Maldivian kings
presently living in NZ who is strongly opposed to the current regime, and in
particular to the currently ongoing islamisation (arabisation?) of the
country. So there's a definite propaganda element in most of what he
writes.

John


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