Talk:Mahl language

Clean-up
This article is new, but is already a bit of a mess. It did have images of the two alphabets laid out across the page. I've reduced them to a reasonable size, but this makes the point that there is no accompanying text. Spelling and grammar are awkward in places too. The article needs some work done on its content and layout. --Gareth Hughes 13:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)


 * And the problem is that the article seems to be rather on Dhivehi than on the dialect of that language called "Mahl". Thus, we get a lot of redundancies becasuse the main article gives all that info anyway. This article here should concentrate on the special characteristics of Mahl and its history as the only dialect of Dhivehi spoken outside the Maldives. Krankman 09:50, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Move to Divehi (Mahl) language
Mahl spoken in Maliku (Minicoy), India is not different from the standard Divehi. The Addu, Moloki and Huvadu dialects of Divehi are more different from standard Divehi than Mahl. so why not we change the name like this Divehi (Mahl) language. Manikfan (talk) 11:57, 28 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Mahl dialect is different from the standard Dhivehi. The difference is that there are classical words as well as influences from Malayalam. It is more like that of northern Maldives. It is considered as a dialect of Dhivehi language by researchers. See these links: http://www.maldives-ethnography.com/linguistic.html, http://books.google.mv/books?id=cpxjAAAAMAAJ&q=Bas+or+Mahl)+that+retains+some+features+of+an+older+Dhivehi&dq=Bas+or+Mahl)+that+retains+some+features+of+an+older+Dhivehi&hl=en&ei=ppgTTYjtGo7_4AaByZ2GAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAA

It is a serious mistake that for a particular period the article has been named as so. It's truly a serious and completely unacceptable matter to have used the word Mahl in brackets, synonymous with Dhivehi. How about the cases of Dhivehi (Huvadhu), Dhivehi (Mulaku), Dhivehi (Addu), etc... For sure there are more speakers of these dialects individually compared to Mahl. There is no language with the name being considered synonymous with a dialect. So please don't use Mahl synonymous with Dhivehi. It is a dialect only and that state can't be changed no matter that the above mentioned change of name by Brother Manikfan has led to this mistake being spread to some mirror sites. Leone (talk) 19:00, 23 December 2010 (UTC)