A Maldivian Dictionary Available to Purchase

RoutledgeCurzon, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, brings us the first specifically Maldivian – English dictionary ever published. It is the brilliant achievement of Christopher Reynolds, Lecturer in Sinhalese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1953‐1987. After four months in the Maldivian capital city of Male in 1967, he made a special study of the Maldivian language (Divehi) which is an Indo‐Iranian language closely related to Sinhalese (although nowadays it uses a different script). Importantly, this scholarly investigation was carried out before the Maldive Islands (a long string of islands south‐west of Sri...