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Madras, a city that has always expanded its language to welcome words into its fold

The Hindu · south asia

Telugu, Urdu, Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, English, and Dutch have all found their way into the Madras bashai, a dialect shaped by the many communities that called Madras home

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