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{{Infobox language<br />
| name = Arunamese/Nefamese<br />
| states = [[Arunachal Pradesh]]<br />
| speakers = unknown<br />
| date = 2006<br />
| ref = e18<br />
| familycolor = Pidgin<br />
| family = [[Assamese language|Assamese-based]] pidgin<br />
| iso3 = nef<br />
| glotto = nefa1235<br />
| glottorefname = Nefamese<br />
}}<br />
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'''Nefamese''' or '''''Arunamese''''' is a [[pidgin]] of [[Arunachal Pradesh]] (formerly [[North-East Frontier Agency|NEFA]]), India. Its classification is unclear; ''Ethnologue'' states that it is based on the [[Assamese language]], but also that it is most closely related to the Sino-Tibetan [[Gallong language|Gallong]] like the Assamese language formed out by the mixture of languages like [[Austroasiatic languages|Austroasiatic]], [[Tibeto-Burman]], [[Tai languages|Tai]] and [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] family of languages. <br />
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Nefamese emerged in eastern Arunachal Pradesh as a [[lingua franca]] among the [[Nyishi people|Nyishi]], [[Adi people|Adi]], [[Apatani people|Apatanai]], [[Khampti]], [[Hill Miri people|Hill Miri]], [[Idu Mishmi language|Idu Mishimi]], [[Nocte people|Nocte]], [[Wancho Naga|Wancho]], [[Tagin people|Tagin]], [[Monpa people|Mompa]], [[Zekhring people|Zakhring]], and [[Bugun language|Bugun]] peoples, among others—between them and with other [[Assamese people|Indigenous Assamese people]] and other Indigenous groups of [[Northeast India]]. The language is threatened by, and has perhaps somewhat been replaced by, the use of [[Hindi]].<br />
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==Phonology==<br />
Nefamese has six vowel phonemes, eighteen consonant phonemes and six diphthongs.<ref>{{harv|Bhuyan|2012|p=232}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Nagamese Creole]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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* {{cite web |url=http://www.thecho.in/files/The-Phonological-Aspects-of-Nefamese.pdf |title=The Phonological aspects of Nefamese |last1=Bhuyan |first1=Nupur Chandra |year=2012 |access-date=7 February 2013}}<br />
* {{cite thesis |last=Bhuyan |first=Nupur|date=2013 |title=A descriptive analysis of Nefamese |type=PhD |hdl=10603/94064}}<br />
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{{Languages of Northeast India}}<br />
{{Indo-Aryan languages}}<br />
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[[Category:Languages of Arunachal Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Assamese-based pidgins and creoles]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered pidgins and creoles]]<br />
[[Category:Endangered languages of India]]</div>->Msasag