{"product_id":"dhivehi-amalia-e-gnanadesikan-9781614513049","title":"Dhivehi: The Language of the Maldives","description":"dhivehi (Maldivian), the national language of the Maldives, has received very little attention in the linguistic literature. With Sinhala (Sinhalese) Dhivehi constitutes a branch of the Indo-Aryan languages that shows a number of features unusual within the Indo-Aryan group, such as a lack of contrastive aspiration, prenasalized stops, and a lack of relative pronouns. Dhivehi also displays features unknown to Sinhala, such as a nonverbal copula and an associative plural, as well as its own unique alphabet, Thaana. \u003cbr\u003eBased on both fieldwork and corpus research, this grammar provides comprehensive coverage of the phonology, orthography, morphology, and syntax of standard written and spoken Dhivehi. The plentiful examples provide native Thaana orthography, Roman transliteration, and morpheme-by-morpheme glossing along with free translations. \u003cbr\u003eWritten in an accessible style from a theory-neutral perspective, this work will be of use to linguistic researchers, language scholars, and students of Dhivehi. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amalia E. Gnanadesikan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 161451304X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781614513049\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Walter de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.90w x 1.00d","brand":"Amalia E. Gnanadesikan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45265083498751,"sku":"9781614513049","price":144.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0fb48d07-6d35-46ef-9e87-b42985c2b999.jpg?v=1713420102","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dhivehi-amalia-e-gnanadesikan-9781614513049","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}