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Mappila Paattu or Mappila Song is a folklore Muslim song genre rendered to lyrics in colloquial Mappila dialect of Malayalam laced with Arabic by the Mappilas of Malabar. Mappila songs have a distinct cultural identity while at the same time remain closely linked to the cultural practices of Kerala. The songs often used words from Persian Urdu Tamil Hindi apart from Arabic and Malayalam but the grammatical syntax was always based on Malayalam.