Dhivehi

WALS coordinates: 4° 10′ N, 73° 30′ E

spoken in Maldives

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Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
  • Maldivian
Routledge:
  • Maldivian
Other:
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
34A Occurrence of Nominal Plurality All nouns, optional in inanimates Nominal Categories
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64A Nominal and Verbal Conjunction Differentiation Nominal Syntax
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Adjective-Noun Word Order
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88A Order of Demonstrative and Noun Demonstrative-Noun Word Order
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89A Order of Numeral and Noun Numeral-Noun Word Order
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90A Order of Relative Clause and Noun Relative clause-Noun Word Order
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90B Prenominal relative clauses Relative clause-Noun (RelN) dominant Word Order
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92A Position of Polar Question Particles Final Word Order
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101A Expression of Pronominal Subjects Subject affixes on verb Simple Clauses
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105A Ditransitive Constructions: The Verb 'Give' Indirect-object construction Simple Clauses
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112A Negative Morphemes Negative affix Simple Clauses
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116A Polar Questions Question particle Simple Clauses
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124A 'Want' Complement Subjects Subject is left implicit Complex Sentences
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138A Tea Others Lexicon
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143A Order of Negative Morpheme and Verb [Neg-V] Word Order
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143E Preverbal Negative Morphemes [Neg-V] Word Order
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143F Postverbal Negative Morphemes None Word Order
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143G Minor morphological means of signaling negation None Word Order
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