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- Arwi, the Arabic-influenced dialect of Tamil, struggles for survival in . . .
One of the many almost forgotten ones is called Arabu-Tamil, also Arwi, the link language that was born by integrating Tamil and Arabic scripts used by Tamil Muslims when Islam entered south India
- Arwi: The lost language of the Arab-Tamils - BBC
The script employs a modified alphabet of Arabic, but the actual words and their meanings are borrowed from the local Tamil dialect
- Arwi - Wikipedia
Arwi (أَرْوِيُّ ʾArwīyyu) or Arabu-Tamil (Tamil: அரபுத்தமிழ், عَرَبُ تَّمِۻْ Araputtamiḻ) is an Arabic -influenced dialect of the Tamil language written with an extension of the Arabic alphabet, with extensive lexical and phonetic influences from the Arabic language
- Arwi: The lost Arabic-Tamil Language of Tamil Muslims - Substack
In some cases, the Arabic words were written without translating to Tamil to guard the original essence As a result, today Tamil lexicon has words of Arabic origin which the common native speakers believe to be inherently part of the Tamil language
- Arwi (Arabic Tamil) - Omniglot
Arwi is a variety of Tamil used by Muslims in Tamil Nadu in India, and in Sri Lanka It is written with the Arabic script, and helps Tamil Muslims to learn Arabic so that they can read the Quran and other literary works in Arabic
- linguistic Links between Arabic and Tamil - Mappila Heritage Library
Arabic is Semitic language and Tamil a Dravidian language Both belong to two different linguistic families and the two speech communities live in non-contiguous geographical areas
- In coastal TN, an ancient hybrid language helped bring Arab traders and . . .
“Initially they learnt a few words in Tamil to talk to locals Following this, a language began to take shape in the 8th century, with Arabic as the written script and the message conveyed in
- Arabu-Tamil, one of the many hybrid languages that are dying out in . . .
Tamil Muslim merchants were the descendants of Arab maritime traders who had settled down in the coastal areas of southern India
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