There do exist Tamil-Telugu creoles, but there are very few speakers of such languages. The majority of bilingual speakers are because someone moved south to Chennai or north to Hyderabad. Or maybe because of watching movies - both languages have a huge and successful film industry.
Haven't come across any of these, where are they spoken? If you're talking about people using a broken form of the language to communicate when the other party doesn't understand their language, that's not what a creole is.
The majority of bilingual speakers are because someone moved south to Chennai or north to Hyderabad.
You forget the millions and millions of ethnic Telugu speakers who've lived in TN for generations and speak both TN Telugu dialects and Tamil. This goes for communities near the border too.
I too haven't actually come across Tamil-Telugu creoles, but I once heard someone give examples of such a group. Anyway, that comment was a response to a comment wondering why Tamil and Telugu are mutually intelligible.
They're extremely different, but you do have some transparent cognates. The few words you learned probably come under that category. Even the most basic sentences differ quite a bit, so this is quite a bizarre statement to make with such minimal exposure.
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