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How to say ‘how are you?’ in your local lingo?

Kannada Development Authority chairman Purushottama Bilimale says everyday speech contains more than 200,000 hyperlocal words that have never been documented. The effort to record them could help preserve local dialects and the phrases people use in daily conversation.
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