Amalia Elisabeth Gnanadesikan

AMALIA E. GNANADESIKAN served as the Technical Director for Language Analysis at the University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language. Now retired, she has taught writing, linguistics, and writing systems at the University of Maryland, West Chester University, and Rutgers University. Her linguistics publications include works in writing systems, phonology, and language description. She is the author of Dhivehi: The Language of the Maldives.