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The script the Maldives used before Thaana.
Also known as: Divehi Akuru
The script used in the Maldives before the right-to-left Thaana script replaced it.
Wrote Dhivehi in the Maldives before the adoption of Thaana.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Replaced by a script written in the opposite direction, so the Maldives changed writing direction as well as letterforms — one of very few documented cases of a language reversing its direction of writing.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Rounded Brahmic letters written left to right, with an inherent vowel and attached vowel signs.