Schwowisch
Danube Swabian
Ridgewood +1Community Profile: Speakers of German language varieties were among the early colonists in New Amsterdam, but it was in the mid-19th century that New York became a Germanic-language metropolis of tremendous scale and diversity rivaled only by Berlin and Vienna. Initially the hub was Kleindeutschland (Little Germany), today the East Village, especially in the vicinity of Tompkins Square Park, but the community expanded widely from there across the region, with major hubs in Yorkville, north Brooklyn, Hoboken, and later much of Queens and Long Island.
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anube Swabians in the United States originally came from diverse transnational region like the Batschka and Banat in what is now principally Hungary, Romania, and Serbia. The Germanic variety they speak, linked to Swabian in southwest Germany, bears traces of many other surrounding languages. Like many other ethnic Germans of Eastern Europe, they were caught up in the turmoil of the Second World War and went as refugees to Germany and Austria, from which a substantial number came to the diversely Germanic neighborhood of Ridgewood, Queens, much as the Gottscheers did. The neighborhood's Linden HIll Cemetery has a memorial monument to the "victims of expulsion, deprivation of rights, extermination, and deportation" from the community.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.