Nau · ނައޫ

Open language models for Dhivehi (ދިވެހި), the language of the Maldives, written in Thaana.

Nau 1.0 writes, translates, summarises and corrects Dhivehi, and runs on an ordinary laptop without an internet connection. It is a 5.4B-parameter model built on Gemma 4 E2B, with a tokenizer extended for Thaana.

On held-out tests	Nau 1.0	Gemini 3.8 Flash
Translation, Dhivehi ↔ English	0.696	0.677
Dhivehi skills (6 tasks)	0.481	0.408
Romanised Dhivehi → Thaana	0.765	0.118
General knowledge (8 questions)	4/8	8/8

Models

Nau-1.0: weights for transformers, plus GGUF files for llama.cpp, LM Studio and Ollama

Datasets

dhivehi-corpus: 1.8 billion characters of Dhivehi from 25 public websites (news, fiction, religious writing, laws, the Gazette)
nau-sft: 386k Dhivehi instruction examples
dhivehi-eval: held-out test sets, with model answers

Everything is open for research. The text datasets are gated because the publishers keep the copyright in their articles and stories. To report a problem or ask for a takedown, open a discussion on the repository concerned.