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Tibetan alphabet. The Tibetan alphabet is an abugida of Indic origin used to write the Tibetan language as well as the Dzongkha language, Denzongkha, Ladakhi language and sometimes the Balti language. The printed form of the alphabet is called uchen script (Tibetan: དབུ་ཅན་, Wylie: dbu-can; "with a head") while the hand-written cursive form used in everyday writing is called umê (Tibetan: དབུ་མེད་, Wylie: dbu-med; "headless"). The alphabet is very closely linked to a broad ethnic Tibetan identity. Dhivehi language. Maldivian ( ދިވެހި divehi) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by about 350,000 people in the Maldives where it is the national language.

It is also the first language of nearly 10,000 people in the island of Minicoy in the Union territory of Lakshadweep, India, where the Mahl dialect of the Maldivian language is spoken. The Maldivian name for the language is Divehi (literally "Maldivian"). This term is occasionally found in English as Dhivehi, which is the spelling according to the officially used Malé Latin in the Maldives. Maldivian is written in the Thaana script. The major dialects of Maldivian are Malé, Huvadhu, Mulaku, Addu, Haddhunmathee and Maliku. Memrise - the fun way to learn anything.

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