Mappila dialect

Mappila dialect (formerly Moplah Malayalam) is a variety of Malayalam, a language with a distinct modern diglossia, spoken predominantly by the Muslim Mappila community of Kerala, southern India. The Mappila form can be classified as a regional dialect in northern Kerala, or as a class or occupational dialect of the Mappila community. The Mappila dialect can also called as 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.[2][3]

This article is about the northern Kerala variety of Malayalam language. For the Arabic script used for writing Malayalam language, see Arabi Malayalam.

Mappila
മാപ്പിള
Native toIndia
Dravidian
  • Southern Dravidian
Malayalam (rarely in Arabi-Malayalam Script)
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologmopl1237[1]

The Mappila form show some lexical (vocabulary) admixture from Arabic and Persian.[3][4]

The variety is also used by lower caste non-Muslims in northern Kerala, Muslims in Dakshina Kannada, and different Mappila migrant communities in South East Asia.[5]

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Moplah". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Subramoniam, V. I. (1997). Dravidian Encyclopaedia. Vol. 3, Language and literature. Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala): International School of Dravidian Linguistics. pp. 508-09.
  3. "Mappila Malayalam-1".
  4. Krishna Chaitanya. Kerala. India, the Land and the People. New Delhi: National Book Trust, India, 1994.
  5. 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.
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