Nahuatl
Sunset Park +3Community Profile: NYC's Mexican population tripled in the 1990s, with the largest numbers arriving from Puebla and later Guerrero, south-central states with large Indigenous communities. One informal survey found that up to 17 percent of Mexican New Yorkers may speak an Indigenous language, with Mixtec and Nahuatl varieties the most widely spoken, possibly by tens of thousands. Indigenous Mexicans have generally settled among other Mexicans, and Mexicans have generally settled among other Spanish speakers in neighborhoods across the city and the region.
N
ahuatl speakers from Brooklyn live across a number of neighborhoods stretching at least from Sunset Park to Coney Island. A network of as many as 100 people from San Lucas Atzala (Puebla) are in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst, while others are from Teopantlán (Puebla) or from San Francisco de Tetlanohcan (Tlaxcala), living in Coney Island — all communities with representation in the Red de Pueblos Transnacionales. Across Brooklyn (and elsewhere in the city) there are also reported to be speakers of a distinct Nahuatl variety from Zacapoaxtla in the highlands of Northern Puebla.
Note that the language above may be used throughout the New York area — this is just one significant site.