epali in New York is spoken by a diverse range of individuals and communities not just from native Nepali-speaking Brahmin and Chhetri groups, but as a second (and increasingly first) language by significant numbers of ethnic minorities from Nepal's Himalayan north, middle hills, and southern reaches near India. There are also Nepali-speaking Lhotsampa refugees originally from Bhutan (primarily now resettled in the Bronx) and some Nepali speakers from India.