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The Nawayaths (also spelled as Navayath or Nawayat) are a small Muslim community concentrated mostly in coastal North Kanara (Uttara Kannada), in the district of Karnataka, a south Indian state. It is an ethnic society, having its own unique traditions and distinct cultural identity. The Nawayathi community holds an important place among the other coastal Muslim communities, like Beary's of the North Kanara district, Mappilas (Moplahs) of the Malabar coast and Labbay of the Coromandel coast. There are smaller distributed pockets of Nawayaths in Byndoor, Murdeshwar(Kaikini), Gangolli, Shiroor, Maneki, Upponi, Hoode, Malpe, Basrur, Kandloor, Honnalla, and Kumta in Karnataka and in Arcot district in Tamil Nadu. Meenambur, a small village close to Gingee south of Madras in Tamil Nadu, is the largest of these. Navyaths also found in Dewas District of Madhya Pradesh also in Indore, Ujjain, Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh. Many have migrated to Pakistan after independence in 1947 and have predominantly settled in Karachi, Sindh. In Pakistan, Nawayath community speak Nawayti as mother tongue. Majority of Nawayaths are involved in Small & Medium businesses.