Thaana
Proper noun
Meaning
Thaana
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The modern writing system of the Dhivehi language spoken in the Maldives.
Examples
Shorthand Several systems of shorthand use diacritics for vowels, but they do not have an inherent vowel, and are thus more similar to Thaana and Kurdish script than to the Brahmic scripts.
The oldest written sample of the Thaana script is found in the island of Kanditheemu in Northern Miladhunmadulu Atoll.
The present-day script is called Thaana and is written from right to left.
This means that Thaana is one of the few alphabets not derived graphically from the original Semitic alphabet unless the Indic numerals were (see Brahmi numerals ).
Unicode main Thaana was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 1999 with the release of version 3.0.