Chennai Slang
madras bashai
Chennai Slang
Madras Tamil or Madras bashai (Tamil: மெட்ராஸ் பாஷை), 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 and Hindi. The word bashai derives from the Sanskrit bhasha (language). The term therefore is Tamil for "Madras language"