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click here The Malayalam language variant of the same is Mangalapuram. One of the earliest references to this name is made by Pandya King Chettian, who called the city as Managalapuram in 715 A.D. Yet another historical reference is by the 11th century Arabian traveler Ibn Batuta, whose chronicles refer to Mangalore as Manjarur. It's just shows the confluence between both Karnataka and Kerala. Does Tulu have a huge Malayalam influence? I mean, all dravidian languages do have a lot of similarities but I don't believe there is a city that has two different names in two languages.