هَوُسَا
Hausa
Fort Greene +2Community Profile: New York's Nigerian population started growing in the 1970s and 80s, accelerating since 2000 in part thanks to the Diversity Visa program. Nigerians from a wide variety of backgrounds—though a significant percentage are middle-class and highly educated— now make up a large percentage of the city's massive West African community, particularly in East New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Flatbush, Clifton, and Concourse. Numerous evangelical churches now serve Christian Nigerian New Yorkers, and there are a number of restaurants, markets, and other businesses for the wider community. Community and hometown organizations also represent those with ties to particular Nigerian states like Edo and Akwa Ibom. The multilingualism of Nigerian New Yorkers testifies to the country's extraordinary linguistic diversity, though Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, and Edo varieties appear to be the most common, with Nigerian English sometimes a lingua franca. Smaller language groups are also present, including some with substantial and well-organized communities: Afenmai, Anaang, Edo, Efik, Esan, Ibibio, Kalabari, Tiv, Urhobo, and likely others.
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ausa speakers in the city may come from a number of places in West Africa and the Sahel, including northern Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana. The total number of users of the language internationally is around 75 million, accoridng to Ethnologue, with two thirds in Nigeria and nearly a third in total being second-language speakers. While thought to be less numerous than Yoruba and Igbo speakers in New York, Hausa speakers are nonetheless present in the large West African community in the Bronx and at Nigerian Muslim institutions in Brooklyn's Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and East New York, as well as in Harlem and on Staten Island.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.