Beary bashe is a dialect mainly spoken by the Muslim

Muslim

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 communities of Dakshina Kannada

Dakshina Kannada

- Geography :The district geography consists of sea shore in the west and Western Ghats in the east. The major rivers are Netravathi, Kumaradhara, Phalguni, Shambhavi, Nandini or Pavanje and Payaswini which all join Arabian sea. Vast areas of evergreen forests which once covered this district, have...

 and Udupi

Udupi district

Udupi district , ಉಡುಪಿ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ) in the Karnataka state of India was created in August 1997. The three northern taluks, Udupi, Kundapur and Karkal, were separated from Dakshina Kannada District to form Udupi district. Udupi district is surrounded by Uttara Kannada district in north, Dakshina Kannada...

 districts of Karnataka

Karnataka

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 known as Beary

Beary

The Beary is a small Muslim community concentrated mostly in coastal South Kanara , in the district of Karnataka, a south Indian state. It is an ethnic society, having its own unique traditions and distinct cultural identity...

s (Byaris) and a small number of Hindus in the District of Kasargod in Kerala state.
Bearys spoke a language made of Malayalam idioms with Tulu

Tulu language

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 phonology and grammar. This dialect was traditionally known as Mappila Malayalam because of Bearys' close contact with Mappilas.
Due to vast influence of Tulu for centuries, it is today considered as a language, close to both Malayalam and Tulu.
Being a distant cousin of other dialects of Malayalam and surrounded by other linguistic groups

Language family

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 for centuries, mainly Tulu and Kannada

Kannada language

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, the dialect exhibits ancient features as well as modern innovations not seen in other well known dialects of Malayalam.
Surrounded by Tulu speaking community, the impact of Tulu on the phonological, morphological and syntactical structure of the dialect is evident.
Sounds peculiar to Malayalam such as 'ḻ', 'ṇ', 'ṟ' are not found in this dialect.
Even 'ḷ' and 'ṇ' are merged with l and n respectively.
The sound 'ṟ' is merged with r and tt, 'tt' to t.
This is same as case in Tulu.

The initial ‘v’ of standard Malayalam corresponds to initial ‘b’ of Beary bashe.
The same change has taken place in Tulu also.


'*'This orthographic representation is phonemic.