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Mahl people
Mahl people refers to the ethnic Maldivians of India (i.e. People of Minicoy and migrant communities from Minicoy). They are one of the three subgroups of the Maldivian people and speak the Mahl dialect of Maldivian language which is a member of the southern group of Indo-Aryan languages.〔()〕 All Mahls are native to the island of Minicoy in Union territory of Lakshadweep, India, which was formerly a part of the Maldive Islands.
==History==
Local oral tradition has it that Kamborani and Kohoratukamana, two princesses from the Maldives, came to Minicoy. When they arrived, the Tivaru, who had been living there before, left the island for Sri Lanka. The Kamborani's descendants are the bodun (land- and shipowners) and the descendents of Kohoratukamana are the niamin (captains). The other status-groups are made up of the descendants of their crew.〔Ellen Kattner, ''The Social Structure of Maliku (Minicoy)''〕 Traditions like this and linguistic affinities with the Mahl dialect of Maldivian language spoken in Minicoy and the standard Maldivian dialect, compared with the southern Maldivian dialects in which archaic features are more well-preserved suggest that Minicoy was principally settled by settlers from Malé or northern Maldives.
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