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- Title
Phonological Features of Arabi-Malayalam.
- Authors
Cheerangote, Saidalavi
- Abstract
This paper intends to explore the phonological features of Arabi-Malayalam based on the Arabi-Malayalam prose and poetry. The study evaluates the peculiarities in the phonological treatment of Sanskrit, Arabic and Persian loan words in this mixed language. It aims mainly at exploring the phonological modifications undergone in the loan words and the particular patterns, if any in such incorporation. The analysis reveals that the Arabi-Malayalam utilized and preserved several Proto-Dravidian phonological processes for the assimilation of loanwords. Highly sanskritized modern standard Malayalam has given up several such features. The study concludes that the Arabi-Malayalam has devised its own de-clustering pattern in the incorporation of loan words. As a result of these processes, drastic changes have been made in the surface structure of loan words and the root forms of such words are difficult to be identified. The phonological features of these words and usages are analyzed in order to bring new lights in understanding linguistic features of this Arabi-Malayalam.
- Subjects
MALAYALAM poetry; ARABIC language; ARABIC poetry; ARABIC prose poems; MIXED languages; PHONOLOGY; LOANWORDS; PHONETICS
- Publication
Language in India, 2017, Vol 17, Issue 12, p299
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article