oday there may be a small number of speakers of at least 9 different distinct Naga languages — with some also speaking the lingua franca Nagamese — living in New Jersey, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island, according to Abraham Lotha, who is based in Edison and has been working on Lotha, his own mother tongue. The earliest known Naga to come to the United States was Eramo Shanjamo Jungi, who arrived in 1904 with a family of Baptist missionaries returning from Nagaland to their home in Trenton Junction. Shanjamo, who was Lotha, returned to Nagaland in 1908 and played an active role in the Baptist church in India until his death in 1956.