ew York is home to the largest Sri Lankan community outside of Sri Lanka, concentrated in Staten Island's Tompkinsville neighborhood, with long-standing cultural institutions and acclaimed restaurants like Lakruwana and New Asha, as well as a community in and around Queens Village and one in New Jersey. Much of Sri Lanka's diversity is represented here, including not just the majority Sinhalese, but also Sri Lankan Tamils (who speak a distinct variety of that South Indian language), Sri Lankan Catholics (who have had Sinhalese mass at St. Adalbert's Church), and even a few Sri Lankan Malay speakers. The first groups of Sri Lankans started arriving in the United States in the 1950s, but it wasn't until the 1990s, during the Civil War that lasted until 2009, that large numbers of Sinhalese began arriving. All groups may also use a distinctive Sri Lankan English as a lingua franca.