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 to	India
Language family	Dravidian Southern Dravidian Tamil–Kannada Tamil–Kodagu Tamil–Malayalam Malayalam Mappila
Writing system	Malayalam (rarely in Arabi-Malayalam Script)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	mopl1237[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.