Taxi drivers brand calls to introduce Dhivehi taxi boards “ridiculous”
20 May 2014, 12:39 PM
Mariyath Mohamed
The Dhivehi Language Academy has called on taxis to change their boards to read ‘Taxi’ in the Dhivehi Thaana script instead of English – a move branded “ridiculous” by drivers.
“The problem is not that ‘taxi’ is an English word,” President of the Dhivehi Language Academy Ashraf Ali explained.
“It can be a word of any language, but the law says if a word does not have a Dhivehi equivalent it should simply be written in the Thaana script. The lettering, at least, should be in Dhivehi even if the word is not,” he said.
Taxi drivers have responded with exasperation to the academy’s suggestion.
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