(documentation NagaPidginLanguage EnglishLanguage "The NagaPidginLanguage is an AssameseBasedCreoleLanguage of India. SIL code: NAG. ISO 639-2: crp. Population: Used by most of the 500,000 speakers of 29 Naga languages as second language (1989 J. Holm). Region: Nagaland, especially Kohima District, Dimapur Subdivision, bordering areas of Arunachal Pradesh. Alternate names: NAGAMESE, NAGA-ASSAMESE, NAGA CREOLE ASSAMESE, KACHARI BENGALI, BODO. Comments: A variety farthest from Assamese is spoken by the Yimchenger Naga, and varieties closest to Assamese by the Angami Naga, and around Dimapur and Kohima. Mother tongue for the Kachari in and around Dimapur, a small community, and among children of interethnic marriages. Classroom textbooks (1992). Trade language. Grammar. An official medium of instruction in schools. Mountains.(extract from http:/ / www.ethnologue.com/ )") |
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