Español Ecuatoriano
Ecuadorian Spanish
Ossining (NY)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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cuadorians form by far the largest South American community in the city, and New York is the undisputed capital of Ecuadorian-American life. Starting in the 1960s and 1970s with a more middle-class professional group migrating especially from around Guayaquil, the NYC community increased dramatically following economic turmoil in the 1990s with large numbers coming from across the country but especially the heavily Indigenous (sometimes Kichwa-speaking) south-central highlands of Azuay-Cañar. A range of Queens neighborhoods including Corona and Ridgewood are major centers, but there are also sizeable communities in Bushwick, Parkchester, and many towns in New Jersey and upstate New York.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.