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Arwi Tamil
Arwi ( ) or 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 has been used extensively by the Muslims of the Tamil Nadu state of India and Sri Lanka. Currently, it is used as a religious language by Tamil Pakistani Muslims, who resides in the Pakistani provinces of Sindh and Balochistan, along with Arabic.
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local variant of Tamil spoken in Malaysia
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