Salient Features
- Extensive usage of 'ny' (ñ ) compared to neighbouring Tulu and Kannada.
- Lack of or loss of Approximant consonants like neighbouring Tulu and Kannada.
- Presence of sound 'b' instead of 'v'(in standard Malayalam) like neighbouring Tulu and Kannada.
- Words end with aa whereas in other colloquial Malayalam they end with o.
- People generally use pronouns during direct conversation like neighbouring Tulu, Kannada people unlike in standard Malayalam.
- Occurrence of 'y' in the place of 'zh'. For example, 'payam' instead of 'pazham'.
- Some of the words start with 'i' in which place standard Malayalam employs 'u'. For example indu (undu), ipperi (upperi).
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