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Arwi was an outcome of the cultural synthesis between seafaring Arabs and Tamil-speaking Muslims of Tamil Nadu. This language was enriched, promoted and developed in Kayalpattinam . It had a rich body of work in jurisprudence, Sufism , law, medicine and sexology , of which little has been preserved.
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Labbay is a surname for Arwi-speaking Muslims in coastal regions, especially Kayalpattinam, Adirampattinam, Kilakarai and Sri Lanka, in addition to many other coastal villages in Tamil Nadu. [ citation needed ] Labbays identify as descendants of Arab traders who intermarried with local women.
Pallava also spread to Southeast Asia and evolved into scripts such as Balinese, [4] Baybayin, [5] Javanese, [6] Kawi, [7] Khmer, [8] Lanna, [9] Lao, [10] Mon–Burmese, [11] New Tai Lue, [12] Sundanese, [13] and Thai. [14] This script is the sister of the Vatteluttu script which was used to write Tamil and Malayalam in the past. [15]
Malay as spoken in Malaysia (Bahasa Melayu) and Singapore, meanwhile, have more borrowings from English. [ 1 ] There are some words in Malay which are spelled exactly the same as the loan language, e.g. in English – museum (Indonesian), hospital (Malaysian), format, hotel, transit etc.
Arwi language (a mixture of Arabic and Tamil) uses the Arabic script together with the addition of 13 letters. It is mainly used in Sri Lanka and the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu for religious purposes. Arwi language is the language of Tamil Muslims; Arabi Malayalam is Malayalam written in the Arabic script. The script has particular ...
Malaysian Tamil (Tamil: மலேசியத் தமிழ் மொழி, romanized: Malēsiyat Tamiḻ Moḻi), also known as Malaya Tamil, is a local variant of the Tamil language spoken in Malaysia. [2] It is one of the languages of education in Malaysia, along with English, Malay and Mandarin.
Modern Standard Arabic is also spoken by people of Arab descent outside the Arab world when people of Arab descent speaking different dialects communicate to each other. As there is a prestige or standard dialect of vernacular Arabic, speakers of standard colloquial dialects code-switch between these particular dialects and MSA. [citation needed]