Nawayathi, also spelled Nawayati, is a language similar to Konkani spoken by Nawayaths of the southwestern coast of India.
It is an amalgam of Persian, Arabic and Marathi, with Konkani as its base.
[1] The Nawayathi language uses Persian script for writing.
"Persian script" was being used to write by the Nawayathis long before the Urdu language came into existence.
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