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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Language spoken in Kerala, Lakshadweep, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu of India}}<br />
{{About|the Arabi Malayalam language|the Arabic script used for writing Arabi Malayalam language|Arabi Malayalam script}}<br />
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{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}}<br />
{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Arabi Malayalam<br />
| nativename = عَرَبِ مَلَیَاۻَمٛ<br />
| altname = Mappila Malayalam<br />
| pronunciation = <br />
| states = [[India]]<br />
| speakers = <br />
| familycolor = Dravidian<br />
| fam2 = [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern Dravidian]]<br />
| fam3 = [[Tamil–Kannada languages|Tamil–Kannada]]<br />
| fam4 = [[Tamil–Kodagu languages|Tamil–Kodagu]]<br />
| fam5 = [[Tamil–Malayalam languages|Tamil–Malayalam]]<br />
| fam6 = [[Malayalam]]<br />
| script = [[Arabi Malayalam script]]<br />
| isoexception = dialect<br />
| glotto = mopl1237<br />
| glottorefname = Moplah<br />
}}<br />
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'''Arabi Malayalam''' (also called Mappila Malayalam<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kottaparamban|first=Musadhique|date=1 October 2019|title=Sea, community and language: a study on the origin and development of Arabi- Malayalam language of mappila muslims of Malabar|url=https://mjsshonline.com/index.php/journal/article/view/97|journal=Muallim Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities|language=en|pages=406–416|doi=10.33306/mjssh/31|issn=2590-3691|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kuzhiyan|first=Muneer Aram|title=Poetics of Piety Devoting and Self Fashioning in the Mappila Literary Culture of South India|url=http://hdl.handle.net/10603/213506|publisher=The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad|hdl=10603/213506}}</ref> and Moplah Malayalam) is the traditional [[Dravidian languages|Dravidian language]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kottaparamban|first=Musadhique|title=Sea, Community and Language: A Study on the Origin and Development of Arabi- Malayalam Language of Mappila Muslims of Malabar|date=2 October 2019|url=https://mjsshonline.com/index.php/journal/article/view/97|journal=Muallim Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities|language=en|pages=406–416|doi=10.33306/mjssh/31|issn=2590-3691|doi-access=free}}</ref> of the [[Mappila|Mappila Muslim community]]. It is spoken by several thousand people, predominantly in the [[Malabar Coast]] of Kerala state, southern India. The form can be classified as a regional dialect in northern Kerala, or as a class or occupational dialect of the Mappila community. It can also be called a [[vernacular]] in general, or as a provincial [[patois]], with the latter label being increasingly applicable in Colonial times. All the forms of the Malayalam language, including Mappila, are mutually intelligible.<ref name="Subramoniam">Subramoniam, V. I. (1997). ''Dravidian Encyclopaedia''. Vol. 3, Language and literature. Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): International School of Dravidian Linguistics. pp. 508-09. [http://worldcat.org/isbn/818569222X]</ref><ref name="jewish-malayalam">{{cite news|url=http://www.jewish-languages.org/jewish-malayalam.html|title=Mappila Malayalam-1}}</ref><br />
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The Mappila form shows some lexical (vocabulary) admixture from Arabic and Persian.<ref name="jewish-malayalam" /><ref name="KrishnaChaitanya">Krishna Chaitanya. ''Kerala. India, the Land and the People.'' New Delhi: National Book Trust, India, 1994. [http://worldcat.org/isbn/8123707517]</ref><br />
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The variety Arabi Malayalam is also used by [[Ezhava|lower caste non-Muslims in northern Kerala]], Muslims in Dakshina Kannada, and different Mappila migrant communities in South East Asia.<ref>Upadhyaya, U. Padmanabha. ''Coastal Karnataka: Studies in Folkloristic and Linguistic Traditions of Dakshina Kannada Region of the Western Coast of India.'' Udupi: Rashtrakavi Govind Pai Samshodhana Kendra, 1996. pp. 63-83.</ref><br />
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== Writing system ==<br />
{{Main|Arabi Malayalam script}}<br />
The [[Arabi Malayalam script]] is an [[Abjad]]. The script<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Arafath|first=P. K. Yasser|date=July 2020|title=Polyglossic Malabar: Arabi-Malayalam and the Muhiyuddinmala in the age of transition (1600s–1750s)|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/polyglossic-malabar-arabimalayalam-and-the-muhiyuddinmala-in-the-age-of-transition-1600s1750s/65608DE0D0113699E7907ECC08E899C0|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society|language=en|volume=30|issue=3|pages=517–539|doi=10.1017/S1356186320000085|s2cid=232345197|issn=1356-1863}}</ref> is also known as Khatafunnani<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kunnath|first=Ammad|date=15 September 2015|title=The rise and growth of Ponnani from 1498 AD To 1792 AD|url=http://hdl.handle.net/10603/49524|publisher=Department of History|hdl=10603/49524}}</ref> or [[Ponnani]] script.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Panakkal|first=Abbas|url=http://myto.upm.edu.my/find/Record/iium.u537621|title=Islam in Malabar (1460-1600) : a socio-cultural study /|date=2016|publisher=Kulliyyah Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kallen|first=hussain Randathani|title=TRADE AND CULTURE: INDIAN OCEAN INTERACTION ON THE COAST OF MALABAR IN MEDIEVAL PERIOD|url=https://www.academia.edu/22105661|language=en}}</ref> It is also used to write several minority languages such as [[Aranadan language|Eranadan]] and [[Jeseri|Jesri]].<br />
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Arabi Malayalam was made by writing Malayalam while using the Arabic script. The language of Malayalam was mainly used to spread the ideas and practices of Islam in Kerala. Creating Arabi Malayalam made it easier for the Arabs who migrated to Kerala to spread the religion without a language barrier getting in the way.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Arabi Malayalam|url=https://www.sahapedia.org/arabi-malayalam-3|access-date=2021-02-16|website=Sahapedia|language=en}}</ref><br />
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== Study center ==<br />
The [[Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University|Malayalam University]] has been set up a centre for studies of Arabi Malayalam language at [[Tirur]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=15 October 2017|title=New university centre for Arabi Malayalam|url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/151017/new-university-centre-for-arabi-malayalam.html|access-date=20 October 2020|website=Deccan Chronicle|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=TwoCircles.net|date=28 December 2015|title=In Kerala, attempts to save Arabi Malayalam take final shape|url=http://twocircles.net/2015dec28/1451285082.html|access-date=20 October 2020|website=TwoCircles.net|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Arabi Malayalam script]]<br />
* [[Arwi]]<br />
* [[Byari bhashe]]<br />
* [[Eranadan language]]<br />
* [[Jasri]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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