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Castellano

Castilian Spanish
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New York City is home to a tremendous diversity of Spanish varieties, largely mutually intelligible but highly distinctive along regional, ethnic, and local lines — for this map, as among speakers themselves, national distinctions (e.g. Peruvian Spanish, Colombian Spanish) are used even though these do not completely capture the nature of the diversity. In general, Caribbean Spanish varieties were dominant for most of the 20th century due to the large Puerto Rican and Dominican populations but today the range of Spanish varieties is becoming ever more various.
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any early Spanish-speaking New Yorkers were from Spain's northern coast and likely spoke as Galician, Basque, or Asturian as a mother tongue. They came in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to Manhattan's Little Spain in what is today's Chelsea and West Village, with some remaining institutions clustered around 14th Street around 7th Avenue, notably La Nacional - Spanish Benevolent Society, a fraternal organization since 1868 and the oldest Spanish cultural institution in the US. Uptown, the Hispanic Society Museum and Library has been a gathering place especially for American admirers and scholars of all things Spanish. A notable Spanish cluster also once existed in Brooklyn Heights, connected to the nearby docks.

Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.
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Castilian Spanish

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