Talk:Arabi Malayalam

Merge with Arabi-Malayalam
Mappila malayalam has the uniqueness of being influenced by Arabic. By and large, it was written in Arabi-Malayalam. Apart from the fact that one is the written form and the other the spoken form, there isn't much difference in the two. Arabi-Malayalam script has been referred to as the written form the Mappila-Malayalam language in a broad sense.( Pg 170, Kerala Muslims: a historical perspective,Asgharali Engineer,Ajanta Publications) This has of course changed in recent years and writers like Basheer have written in the Mappila dialect of Malayalam in pure Malayalam script, but that is part of an evolution of the script part of it. The content of the two articles need to be rewritten in a way that identifies the Arabi-Malayalam script as the older written form of the Mappila dialect, while also mentioning the modern writings in Malayalam that retain the Mappila dialect.NMKuttiady (talk) 11:03, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

Deleted on Malayalam wikipedia by Malayalam users
This is not a specific dialect of the language. Transliterated Arabic words are used intermixed, primarily in religious context, with standard Malayalam. It does not qualify as a distinct language or dialect of a language. There seems to be no historic mention of this in any scholarly publications. The only distinction that appears to arise is the additional use of some Arabic terms making this, at most, a social or ethnic vernacular self distinction or isogloss but not a dialect. In all other regards there are no other differences.

Spanglish
We here in South Texas have a lot of Native Mexican Spanish speakers and both Anglos and Hispanics use distinct borrowed words. So does Spanglish qualify as a Spanish or English Dialect...? I also use a lot of German words regularly as do others around here that you don't hear in other parts of the country that often. Does that count as a 'dialect' as well?... Really, I don't think so.

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