The Marakkars or Chonaka Mappila or Chonakar (; Arwi: ) are a mercantile, Tamil Muslim group inhabiting the southern coast of India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia.
The Marakkars or Chonaka Mappila or Chonakar (; Arwi: ) are a mercantile, Tamil Muslim group inhabiting the southern coast of India, Sri Lanka, and Southeast Asia.
Today, Marakkars are found across South Asia (Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maldives, Sri Lanka) and Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore). They were originally a Tamil Sunni Muslim community whom also adopted speaking Malayalam, Sinhala, Dhivehi, or Malay depending on their country of residence based on Kilai.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).