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

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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The Hindu28 Aug 2026, 02:46 amUpdated 2h ago1 min readIndiaIndia
Madras, a city that has always expanded its language to welcome words into its fold

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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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Source: The Hindu. Published 28 Aug 2026, 02:46 am.

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