Presented here is a Mappila song or Mappila Paatt, the popular folk Muslim songs of Malabar region in Kerala.
Mappila Songs use a colloquial blend of Malayalam and Arabic languages. Sometimes languages like Tamil, Persian, Kannada and Hindi also find their place in these songs. The themes of this song may be diverse- devotion, love, satire, heroism. The rhythm of these songs is a perfect blend of Arabic and Malayalam folk tunes. Their metre is denoted by the term Isal. Traditionally, they were transferred from one generation to another orally.
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