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Nawayathi dialect

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The Nawayaths speaks a dialect called ‘Nawayathi’. It is an amalgam of Persian, Arabic, Marathi and Hindi, with Konkani as its base. The Navayath language uses Persian script for writing. "Persian script" was being used to write by the Nawaytis long before the language Urdu came into existence.

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