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Nagamese (also Naga Pidgin) is an Assamese-lexified contact language that emerged in the 19th century as a trade lingua franca between speakers of dozens of mutually unintelligible Naga languages (Tibeto-Burman) of northeastern India. It serves as the primary inter-ethnic medium across Nagaland, where English is the only official language but is not universally spoken. Some children now grow up with Nagamese as L1, making it a creole-in-formation. Reduced morphology compared to Standard Assamese; lexically Assamese with Naga substrate features.