Arabi Malayalam (also called Mappila Malayalam[1][2] and Moplah Malayalam) is the traditional Malayalam dialect[3] of the 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.[4][5]
The Mappila form shows some lexical admixture from Arabic and Persian.[5][6]
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.[7]
Writing system
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The Arabi Malayalam script is an Abjad. The script[8] is also known as Khatafunnani[9] or Ponnani script.[10][11] It is also used to write several minority languages such as Eranadan and Jesri.
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.[12]
Study center
Malayalam University has been set up as a centre for studies of Arabi Malayalam language at Tirur.[13][14]
See also
References
- ↑ Sea, community and language: a study on the origin and development of Arabi- Malayalam language of mappila muslims of Malabar. Muallim Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities({Template:Date).
- ↑ Poetics of Piety Devoting and Self Fashioning in the Mappila Literary Culture of South India.
- ↑ Sea, Community and Language: A Study on the Origin and Development of Arabi- Malayalam Language of Mappila Muslims of Malabar. Muallim Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities({Template:Date).
- ↑ Subramoniam, V. I. (1997). Dravidian Encyclopaedia. Vol. 3, Language and literature. Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): International School of Dravidian Linguistics. pp. 508-09. [1]
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mappila Malayalam-1. Retrieved 3 July 2007.
- ↑ Krishna Chaitanya. Kerala. India, the Land and the People. New Delhi: National Book Trust, India, 1994. [2]
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Polyglossic Malabar: Arabi-Malayalam and the Muhiyuddinmala in the age of transition (1600s–1750s). Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society({Template:Date).
- ↑ The rise and growth of Ponnani from 1498 AD To 1792 AD({Template:Date).
- ↑ Islam in Malabar (1460-1600) : a socio-cultural study /{{#if:Panakkal|, Panakkal}. Kulliyyah Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia(2016)
- ↑ TRADE AND CULTURE: INDIAN OCEAN INTERACTION ON THE COAST OF MALABAR IN MEDIEVAL PERIOD.
- ↑ Arabi Malayalam. Sahapedia. Retrieved 2021-02-16.
- ↑ New university centre for Arabi Malayalam. Deccan Chronicle(15 October 2017). Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ↑ In Kerala, attempts to save Arabi Malayalam take final shape, TwoCircles.net. TwoCircles.net(28 December 2015). Retrieved 20 October 2020.
Further reading
- Arabee Malayala Sahitya Charithram [History of Arabi Malayalam]{{#if:O. Abu|, O. Abu}. N.B.S.(1970)
External links
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