Thaana
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Thaana, Tãna, Taana or Tāna is the writing system of the Maldivian language spoken in the Maldives. Thaana has characteristics of both an abugida and a true alphabet, with consonants derived from indi
Sign at a mosque in Malé: the Thaana script reads Faivānā, būṭāeku erun manā!.
Abugida
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An abugida —sometimes also called an alphasyllabary, neosyllabary, or pseudo-alphabet—is a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as units; each unit is based on a con
Thaana
…Thaana, Tãna, Taana or Tāna ( ތާނަ ) is the writing system of the Maldivian language spoken in the Maldives. Thaana has characteristics of both an abugida (diacritics, vowel-killer strokes) and a true alphabet (all vowels are written), with consonants derived from indigenous and Arabic numerals, and vowels…
A 19th-century manuscript in the Devanagari script
The Geʽez script, an abugida of Eritrea and Ethiopia