Ancestry

I am from malé. I did ancestry dna test and learned I'm 5 percent french. My whole world has changed. I tried to commit suicide but couldn't do it. Now i have to live like this. But after that i decide it is a zionist game. I suggest people don't do dna test it's lie bcs im 100 percent maldivian thnx.

Oh hell nah not the fr*nch

Supposedly, my great-great-great grandmother was french. The story is that she got stranded in Kulhudhuffushi during the early 19th century after the ship she was traveling on sank. She was described as being a tall blonde woman with really pale skin.

Do take this story with a grain of salt though. Personally, I think this is more of a family myth if anything because of how many variations of this story I have heard over the years. According to some versions, she got stranded in Kulhudhuffushi. In others, it’s Malé. I once even heard a version where she got stranded in Addu. And that’s without even mentioning the fact that she is a he is some versions. So yeah, it’s probably a myth rather than something that actually happened

Are there some Maldivians that have Yemeni Ancestry.. because I heard that some Yemeni tribes..

You have to understand in some cases Arab, Persian or East African ancestry are mislabeled. No evidence of families of Yemeni tribes settling here, but sailors, elite officials and traders may have settled or had children. There are actual Yemeni descendants recorded in Maldivian history further you go back, with the surname 'Al-Hadhrami' and some families carried this surname. But if you look closely at some modern families which claim Yemeni ancestry, from a single ancestor from greater Yemen 7 generations ago. Some of these families are actually South Asian Sayyids (ސީދި/ސިއްތި) or East African Sayyids, who have spent centuries in this region and have mixed ancestry before settling in Maldives.

Maafaiyyge Dhon Seedhi (Father of former president Maumoon)is an example of such a person. Unlike Kuda Seedhi and Kalhuhuraage Dhon Seedhi, his lineage is not from Hadhramaut, but he has been mislabeled by some people from Male as of Yemeni descent.

Similarly, grandfather of late 17th century influential orator and politican, 'Addu Bodufandiyaaru Thakurufufaanu' (ie. Qadi Mohamed Shamsuddin Ibn Hassan Ranhamadi), is mistakenly claimed recently as of Arab or Yemeni descent by popular writers. This is confusing, because as I've mentioned before the gravestones of his descendants read, 'ibn Mohamed ibn Sultan Al Masri', ie.u Muhammed the Son of King of Egypt. However, if you look at the timeframe and the person he is speculated to be by modern historians, he was most likely the veteran Captain of the Mamluk-Portugese war over coast of South West India; Muhammad Ibn Saif Al-Din Ashraf Qaitbay, who happens to be the youngest son of the previous Qaitbay Sultan, who disappears from historical record after being sent off as a captain in his adopted uncles Navy to the Indian Ocean. This person is of Circassian origin, mixed with Turkish and Persian families, AFAIK they themselves didn't identify as Arabs.

some french people settled in Maldives and some even married to the royal family

There's a very famous myth that Huraa family (before it was a royal Family) had French origins, through a person calles Don Louis. However, this is a myth famously made up by Amin Didi, based on all evidence Dom Louis is likely of Maldivian/Portuguese descent. This is most likely the case since he is a descendant of Dom Manuel (Kaafaruvi Hasaan Rasgefaanu) from Goa, through Donna Inès and is mentioned in Tarikh by Hassan Tajuddin. Dhivehi version of Tarikh incorrectly transliterates the missing Arabic vowels to 'Dom La Veeza', but it is clearly Arabic spelling of Luiz in original text. I talked about this in an earlier comment regarding the name of Andhiri Andhirin, quite recently.

Interestingly, Muleege Dhon Hassan Maniku of Huraa (Dhon Bandaarain) did hire French Mercenary troops to win his war in securing Maldives and counterattacking the Malabars. Their stay was brief and left after a dispute. After two attempts at installing weak regnant Queens, (apparently Amina the elder was a very corrupt person who cannot be trusted with finance) he finally ascended the throne as Sultan Ghazi Hassan Izuddin, until the Dhiyamigili prince was restored to the throne. Decades after his death, his family and loyalists pulled of a coup when they saw a chance, ending in execution of Sultan Ghiyassudin, killing Dhiyamigili loyalists, destroying their property in Malé and exiling the remaining families all over the Maldives.

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Not sure about Yemeni tribes but I read somewhere that Alirasgefaanu's dad was Yemeni (no sources were cited). Considering our geographical location it's reasonable to think that we have a good mix of a lot of ethnicities.

Once I visited an island called kudafari in noonu atoll. The people told me the first settlers to that island were baburu. Baburu means really black right? They say their ancestors were black slaves. And they showed me big graves and told me they were the first settlers. They use the n word too cause they say they are half black.

i heard that a long time a ago a fr*nch dude got shipwrecked in our island and then he settled there and had a family, theres probably hundreds people of his descent now but with like 5% fr×nch or something

and also in more recent history an Egyptian guy got stranded in my island some decades ago, he died like a couple years ago as a great-great-granpa, theres a bunch of families descended from him as well

somebody said I look Chinese

I read a paper on maldivian genetics once, i'll see if i can find it again.

nahhh man, ain’t no fr*nch here🙏🙏🙏 don’t associate us with them🙏🙏🙏🙏

I heard ameen didi's grandfather or great grand father was frech or Italian. explains his interest in fashion. H was iconic.

fuck the fr*nch viva lavida