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Arwi or ArabuTamil (Arabic: الْأَرْوِيَّة‎ al-arwiyyah, أَرْوِي‎ arwī;[1] Tamil: அரபுத்தமிழ் arabu-tamil) 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 was used extensively by the Muslim minority of the Tamil Nadu state of India and Sri Lanka.

Arwi الأروية - அல் அர்விய்யா
Arwi written in Arabic Script
Script type	Abjad
Time period	Present
Status	Religious Uses
Direction	right-to-left script
Region	India, Sri Lanka
Languages	Tamil
Related scripts
Parent systems	Egyptian hieroglyphs Proto-Sinaitic Phoenician Aramaic Syriac Nabataean Arabic Arwi
Sister systems	Arabi Malayalam
ISO 15924
ISO 15924	Arab (160), ​Arabic
Unicode
Unicode alias	Arabic
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History

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. It was used as a bridge language for Tamil Muslims to learn Arabic.[2] The patrons of Arwi seem to have been the Nawab of the Carnatic, they were Islamic and were part of the Mughal Empire. Many hadith manuscripts have been found. Most of the fiqh books, particularly those of Imaam Shaafi and Imaam Abu Hanifa, have been found in Arwi.

There was also a translation of the Bible into Arwi in 1926.

Arwi still has a place among the more traditional Tamil muslim (Arwi Muslim) and Sri Lankan Moor families.

Script

The Arwi alphabet is the Arabic alphabet, with thirteen additional letters used to represent the Tamil vowels e and o and several Tamil consonants that could not be mapped to Arabic sounds.[1]

Arwi vowels arranged according to the Tamil order (right to left)

எ	ஏ	ஐ	ஒ	ஓ	ஔ	அ	ஆ	இ	ஈ	உ	ஊ
اَ‎	آ‎	اِ‎	اِی‎	اُ‎	اُو‎	ࣣا‎	ای‎	اَی‎	اٗ‎	اٗو‎	اَو‎
a	ā	i	ī	u	ū	e	ē	ai	o	ō	au

Arwi letters arranged according to the Arabic alphabetical order (right to left) ஆ   த்த   ஜ ச்ச   ஃக த ட ட்ட     ள   ا‎ ب‎ ت‎ ث‎ ج‎ چ‎ ح‎ خ‎ د‎ ڊ‎ ڍ‎ ذ‎ ض‎ صٜ‎ ص‎ ā b t ḍ ḷ ṣ s̱ j c h̤ k͟h d D T ẕ ஷ ஸ ஃஜ ர ற ழ       ங   ஃப ப   க்க க ش‎ س‎ ز‎ ڔ‎ ر‎ ۻ‎ ط‎ ظ‎ ع‎ ࢳ‎ غ‎ ف‎ ڣ‎ ق‎ ك‎ ࢴ‎ ś s z r̠ r ḻ t̤ ẓ ‘ ng ġ f p q k g ல ம ன, ந ண ஞ ஹ வ ய ل‎ م‎ ن‎ ڹ‎ ݧ‎ ه‎ و‎ ي‎ l m n ṇ ñ h w y

See also

• Jawi Alphabets
• Swahili language
• Arabi Malayalam
• Arabic Script

References

External links

• Arwi: Comments, Questions and Answers
• Islamic Cultural Values of Arwi Southeastern university of Sri Lanka. Research and publication (2014).
• For a cultural synthesis Book review in The Hindu
• Arwi or Arabu-Tamil Book on Arwi
• What is Arwi (Arabic Tamil)?
• Arwi (அரபுத்தமிழ் / لسانالأروي)
• 'Arusi branch of the Qadiri path

На других языках

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- [en] Arwi

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[it] Lingua arwi

Arwi (لسان الأروي lisān-ul-arwī ; அரபு-தமிழ் arabu-tamil) è un dialetto tamil con influenze lessicali e fonetiche dell'arabo, che era usato ampiamente dalla minoranza musulmana dello stato di Tamil Nadu in India e dello Sri Lanka. Come lingua parlata si è estinta.

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[ru] Арви

Арви (لسان الأروي Лисан-уль-Арви или Лисан аль-Арви; язык Арви[1]; அரபு — தமிழ் арабо-тамильский) — представляет собой письменный диалект тамильского языка, который использует для записи арабский алфавит[2]. Возникновение такого диалекта объясняется обширным лексическим влиянием арабского языка[1]. Арви широко использовался мусульманским меньшинством индийского штата Тамилнада и Шри-Ланки[1]. Несколько исламских школ по-прежнему преподают основы Арви.

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