Trini Talk
Trinidadian Creole
Wakefieldew York is a major center of the Trinidadian and Tobagonian diaspora, with most Afro-Trinidadians living in Brooklyn, in a range of neighborhoods stretching from Crown Heights to Canarsie and Indo-Trinidadians, like most Indo-Guyanese, living in the Queens neighborhoods of Richmond Hill and Ozone Park. Most Trinidadians from both communities use the English-based creole, sometimes called Trini Talk, as a language of daily life distinct from "standard English". A smaller but still significant number of New Yorkers also have knowledge of the distinct Tobagonian Creole. (The endangered Trinidadian French Creole may also be known by some.) 2015-2019 American Community Survey data estimated that 79,175 New Yorkers were born in Trinidad and Tobago, a large percentage of whom are likely to be Creole speakers, even if they were recorded as being speakers of English (81,381) with smaller numbers speaking other languages: Spanish (1,002), French (346), Hindi (156), Urdu (8), Bengali (71), and more.