Language
The official language of the city, Marathi, is the mother-tongue of 42% of the population. However, due to a large number of immigrants coming to the city, Mumbai has become a melting pot of various parts of India. This has resulted in a local dialect, Bambaiya Hindi. It reflects a blending of the different people in the city. Bollywood movies have portrayed the language often.
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“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.”
—Martin Heidegger (1889–1976)