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Arabi Malayalam (also called Mappila Malayalam [1] [2] and Moplah Malayalam) is the traditional Dravidian language [3] of the Mappila Muslim community. It is spoken by several thousand people, predominantly in the Malabar Coast of Kerala state, southern India.
The language used in the Arabi Malayalam works of 16th–17th century CE is a mixture of Modern Malayalam and Arabic. They follow the syntax of modern Malayalam, though written in a modified form of Arabic script , which is known as Arabi Malayalam script . [60]
പ്രധാന താൾ ഉള്ളടക്കം; സമകാലികം; പുതിയ താളുകൾ ഏതെങ്കിലും താൾ
വാക്കുകൾ, വാചകങ്ങൾ, വെബ് പേജുകൾ എന്നിവ മലയാളത്തിൽ നിന്ന് 100 ...
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Malayalam, the native language of Malayalis, has its origin from the words mala meaning "mountain" and alam meaning "land" or "locality". Kerala was usually known as Malabar in the foreign trade circles in the medieval era. Earlier, the term Malabar had also been used to denote Tulu Nadu and Kanyakumari which lie contiguous to Kerala in the southwe...
Malayalam is a language spoken by the native people of southwestern India (from Mangalore to Kanyakumari) and the islands of Lakshadweep in Arabian Sea. According to the Indian census of 2001, there were 30,803,747 speakers of Malayalam in Kerala, making up 93.2% of the total number of Malayalam speakers in India, and 96.7% of the total population ...
The Malayali live in an historic area known as the Malabar coast, which for thousands of years has been a major centre of the international spice trade, operating at least from the Roman era with Ptolemy documenting it on his map of the world in 150AD. For that reason, a highly distinct culture was created among the Malayali due to centuries of con...
Dr. K. Ayyappa Panicker (2006). A Short History of Malayalam Literature. Thiruvananthapuram: Department of Information and Public Relations, Kerala.Menon, A. Sreedhara (2007). A Survey of Kerala History. DC Books. ISBN 9788126415786.Native name: മലയാളം (malayāḷam) [mʌlʌjaːɭʌm]) Language family: Dravidian, Southern Dravidian, Tamil-Kannada, Tamil-Kodagu, Tamil-Malayalam. Number of speakers: c. 38 million. Spoken in: India, First written: 4th century AD. Writing system: Malayalam and Arabic scripts (current), Grantha, Vatteluttu and several other scripts (past)
Feb 12, 2024 · The Arabic that the traders spoke intermingled with the local language of Tamil to create what scholars call Arabu Tamil, or Arwi. The script employs a modified alphabet of Arabic, but the actual...
