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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Dialect of Malayalam used by Mappila Muslims}}<br />
{{About|the Arabi Malayalam dialect of Malayalam|the Arabic script used for writing Arabi Malayalam|Arabi Malayalam script}}<br />
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{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Arabi Malayalam<br />
| nativename = عَرَبِ مَلَیَاۻَمٛ<br />
| altname = Mappila Malayalam<br />
| image = ArabiMalayalam alphabet.png<br />
| ethnicity = <br />
| pronunciation = <br />
| states = [[India]]<br />
| speakers = [[Malabar Muslims]]<br />
| familycolor = Dravidian<br />
| fam2 = Southern<br />
| fam3 = [[Southern Dravidian languages|Southern I]]<br />
| fam4 = Tamil–Kannada<br />
| fam5 = Tamil–[[Kota language (India)|Kota]]<br />
| fam6 = Tamil–[[Toda language|Toda]]<br />
| fam7 = Tamil–Irula<br />
| fam8 = Tamil–[[Kodava language|Kodava]]–[[Urali language|Urali]]<br />
| fam9 = [[Tamiloid languages|Tamil]]–[[Malayalamoid languages|Malayalam]]<br />
| fam10 = [[Malayalamoid languages|Malayalamoid]]<br />
| fam11 = [[Malayalam]]<br />
| ancestor = [[Old Tamil language|Old Tamil]]<br />
| ancestor2 = [[Middle Tamil language|Middle Tamil]]<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|url-access=subscription}}</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 [[Malayalam dialect]]<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|url-access=subscription}}</ref> of the [[Malabar Muslims|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 Malayalam, including the Mappila dialect, 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|access-date=3 July 2007|archive-date=1 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501075736/http://www.jewish-languages.org/jewish-malayalam.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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The Mappila form shows some lexical 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 lower castes 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 />
[[File:Multilingual (Tamil and Malayalam - Arabic script) advertisement - catalogue of books and textiles - Ponnani (1908).jpg|thumb|left|A multilingual advertisement with a catalogue of books and textiles available from a shop in Ponnani in 1908. Text on the left hand side is [[Arwi|Arabi-Tamil]], text on the right hand side, Arabi Malayalam script]]<br />
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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|url-access=subscription}}</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|access-date=20 October 2020|archive-date=27 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527064123/http://myto.upm.edu.my/find/Record/iium.u537621|url-status=dead}}</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 came into being as Malayalam written in the Arabic script. The Malayalam language 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 />
[[Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University|Malayalam University]] has been set up as 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 />
* [[Suriyani Malayalam]]<br />
* [[Arwi]]<br />
* [[Byari bhashe]]<br />
* [[Eranadan language]]<br />
* [[Jasri]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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* {{Cite book|title=Arabee Malayala Sahitya Charithram [History of Arabi Malayalam] |publisher=[[National Book Stall|N.B.S.]] |year=1970 |location=Kottayam |last=O. Abu |language=Malayalam |url=https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.27717}}<br />
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