Madras Tamil or Madras bashai, is a type of mixed language spoken in the city of Chennai, India (previously known as Madras). It is a loose polyglot blend of Tamil and English, with loanwords from Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Urdu. The term therefore is Tamil for Madras language Recently it has become known as Tanglish, as opposed to Hinglish, of which it is sometimes referred to as a dialect.

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  • Madras Tamil or Madras bashai, is a type of mixed language spoken in the city of Chennai, India (previously known as Madras). It is a loose polyglot blend of Tamil and English, with loanwords from Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Urdu. The term therefore is Tamil for Madras language Recently it has become known as Tanglish, as opposed to Hinglish, of which it is sometimes referred to as a dialect. However, while Hinglish and Tanglish are both dialects of English, Tanglish cannot be considered a dialect of Hinglish because, unlike Punglish (Punjabi-English) the Indian parts of these dialects are not related - Tamil, unlike Hindi, is not in the Indo-European language group. After Madras Bashai became somewhat common in Madras, it became a source of satire for early Kollywood movies from the 1950s, in the form of puns and double entendres. Subsequent generations in Chennai identified with it and absorbed English constructs into the dialect, making it what it is today.
  • Le tamoul de Madras, aussi appelé Madras bashai, est un langage mixte parlé dans la ville de Chennai (anciennement Madras) en Inde. C'est un mélange informel de tamoul et d'anglais, avec des emprunts au telugu, au kannada, au malayalam, à l'hindi et à l'urdu. Après que le Madras bashai fut devenu courant à Madras, il devint un objet de satire pour les premier films de Kollywood (la production cinématographique de Madras) dans les années 1950, sous forme de jeux de mots. Les gérérations suivantes d'habitants de Chennai se sont identifiés avec cette langue singulière, mélangeant dialecte et constructions anglaises pour en faire le parler d'aujourd'hui.
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  • August 2009
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  • Madras Tamil or Madras bashai, is a type of mixed language spoken in the city of Chennai, India (previously known as Madras). It is a loose polyglot blend of Tamil and English, with loanwords from Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Urdu. The term therefore is Tamil for Madras language Recently it has become known as Tanglish, as opposed to Hinglish, of which it is sometimes referred to as a dialect.
  • Le tamoul de Madras, aussi appelé Madras bashai, est un langage mixte parlé dans la ville de Chennai (anciennement Madras) en Inde. C'est un mélange informel de tamoul et d'anglais, avec des emprunts au telugu, au kannada, au malayalam, à l'hindi et à l'urdu. Après que le Madras bashai fut devenu courant à Madras, il devint un objet de satire pour les premier films de Kollywood (la production cinématographique de Madras) dans les années 1950, sous forme de jeux de mots.
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  • Madras Tamil
  • Tamoul de Madras
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