Dhivehi Language Day in Maldives

Dhivehi people, an ethnic group native to the historic region of the Maldive Islands. Dhivehi language, an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by about 350,000 people in the Republic of Maldives. Maldivian, also known by its endonym Dhivehi or Divehi, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the South Asian island country of Maldives and on Minicoy Island, Lakshadweep, union territory of India. Maldivian is a descendant of Elu Prakrit and is closely related to Sinhalese, but not mutually intelligible with it.