Loamaafaanu are Maldivian waqf grants in the form of copper plates on which inscriptions have been engraved. Many ancient Maldivian historical texts are found only in loamaafaanu form, with the oldest of the plates dating from the twelfth century AD. The Divehi script used on the plates was named "Eveyla Akuru" by H. C. P. Bell, who claimed that it resembled medieval Sinhala script.^[2]

According to the Isdhoo Loamaafaanu and Gamu loamaafaanu, monks from monasteries of the southern atoll of Haddhunmathi were brought to Malé and beheaded. Beside lōmāfānu plates found in Haddhunmathi Atoll, one of the most important Maldivian copper plates is the Bodugalu Miskiy Loamaafanu found in Malé.

• Isdhoo Loamaafaanu (1194 CE)
• Gamu Loamaafaanu (1194/1195 CE)
• Dhanbidhoo Loamaafaanu (1196/1197 CE)

• Kudahuvadhoo Loamaafaanu (1237/1238 CE)

• Bodugalu Miskiyy Loamaafaanu (1356)

Below is a table of islands that have been mentioned in the Loamaafaanu

• Dhivehi writing systems
• Indian copper plate inscriptions
• Haddhunmathi Atoll
• Isdhoo (Laamu Atoll)
• Dhanbidhoo (Laamu Atoll)

• Ali Najeeb, Dambidū Lōmāfānu. Council for Linguistic and Historical Research. Malé 2001.
• HCP Bell, The Maldive islands. Monograph on the History, Archaeology and Epigraphy. Reprint 1940 edn. Malé 1986.
• Bodufenvahuge Sidi. Divehi Akuru; Evvana Bai. Malé 1958.
• H.A. Maniku & G.D. Wijayawardhana, Isdhoo Loamaafaanu, Colombo 1986.
• Romero-Frias, Xavier. The Maldive Islanders, A Study of the Popular Culture of an Ancient Ocean Kingdom. Barcelona 1999.
• https://dhivehiacademy.edu.mv/18299. Kudahuvadhoo Loamafaanu Translation, Dhivehi Academy

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