The Mappilla of India, numbering approximately 12,000,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Malayali Muslim people of Kerala's Malabar Coast whose origins lie in centuries of interaction between local South Indian communities and Arab traders, resulting in a distinctive culture that combines Islamic, Arab, and Kerala traditions They are an Indigenous people, with Mappilla as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Malayali people cluster of the South Asian Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam. They primarily speak Malayalam.