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Castle Hill

Bronx
In the Census-defined PUMA including Castle Hill, Clason Point & Parkchester, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) Bengali, "Niger-Congo languages", and French are recorded as having over 1000 speakers. Varieties of English and Spanish are widely spoken.
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Languages with a significant site in this neighborhood, marked by a point on the map:

Afenmai

Afenmai
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.

Guyanese Creole

Creolese
Unlike Afro-Guyanese migrants to New York, most Indo-Guyanese chose to settle in Queens (especially Richmond Hill and Ozone Park) near other Indo-Caribbean and South Asian communities, with some also settling in the Bronx (where the Shri Vishnu Mandir is one religious institution). A number of distinctively Indo-Caribbean Hindu temples have also been built across Brooklyn and Queens, where some combination of English, Hindi, and Sanskrit may be used, and there are also Indo-Caribbean Tamil New Yorkers.

Tigre

ትግራይት
Although Eritrean New Yorkers live throughout the city, including areas of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, the Eritrean Community Center and Social Club in a Columbia University-owned building on 125th and Broadway in Manhattan was a major focal point for speakers of Tigrinya and Tigre. The center closed in 2012 after 27 years in operation, following eviction. For Eritrean Baptists, one recent gathering place has been a small room in a multi-use building on the Upper West Side, where Tigrinya-language services are held.

Tigrinya

ትግርኛ
Although Eritrean New Yorkers live throughout the city, including areas of the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens, the Eritrean Community Center and Social Club in a Columbia University-owned building on 125th and Broadway in Manhattan was a major focal point for speakers of Tigrinya and Tigre. The center closed in 2012 after 27 years in operation, following eviction. For Eritrean Baptists, one recent gathering place has been a small room in a multi-use building on the Upper West Side, where Tigrinya-language services are held.

Wolof

Wolof
While French is the official language of Senegal, Wolof is the most widely spoken language and serves as a lingua franca across various ethnolinguistic communities in the country. Significant waves of Senegalese immigration to the U.S. began in the 1970s, extending well-organized diaspora networks both in the region and in Europe (especially those associated with the Murid Sufi brotherhood based in Touba). Young Senegalese merchants, usually young men, made a living as street vendors selling a wide variety of products across Manhattan and in turn shipping American products back to Africa. Initially living in old Manhattan hotels set up for single bachelors, many Senegalese New Yorkers converged on Central Harlem, with West 116th between Malcom X and Frederick Douglass becoming Le Petit Senegal. Wolof speakers, of whom today there are thousands in the city, have also moved further north in Harlem, and to parts of Brooklyn, and especially to the Bronx. Increasingly diverse within itself, the Senegalese migration also paved the way for other traders and immigrants from Francophone West Africa.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Bengali
  • Puerto Rican Spanish
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AbakuáAbakuá

Caribbean

  • Cuba flag
    Cuba
Lower East Side

Smallest

Liturgical
AbazaАбаза

Western Asia

  • Turkey flag
    Turkey
  • Russia flag
    Russia
49,800
Abkhaz-Adyge
Wayne (NJ)

Smallest

Residential
Abruzzese (Orsognese)Abruzzésë

Southern Europe

  • Italy flag
    Italy
Indo-European
Astoria

Small

Residential
Abruzzese (Orsognese)Abruzzésë

Southern Europe

  • Italy flag
    Italy
Indo-European
Little Italy

Small

Historical
AcehneseBahsa Acèh

Southeastern Asia

  • Indonesia flag
    Indonesia
3,500,000
Austronesian
Astoria

Smallest

Community
AcehneseBahsa Acèh

Southeastern Asia

  • Indonesia flag
    Indonesia
3,500,000
Austronesian
Elmhurst

Smallest

Residential
AdjoukrouMɔjukru

Western Africa

  • Ivory Coast flag
    Ivory Coast
140,000
Atlantic-Congo
Concourse

Smallest

Residential
AdygheК|ахыбзэ

Western Asia

  • Turkey flag
    Turkey
  • Russia flag
    Russia
117,500
Abkhaz-Adyge
Wayne (NJ)

Small

Residential
AfenmaiAfenmai

Western Africa

  • Nigeria flag
    Nigeria
270,000
Atlantic-Congo
Castle Hill

Smallest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Bedford-Stuyvesant

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Newark (NJ)

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Clifton

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Hollis

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Edenwald

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Central Harlem

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Hempstead (NY)

Large

Residential
AfrikaansAfrikaans

Southern Africa

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    South Africa
  • Zimbabwe flag
    Zimbabwe
17,543,580
Indo-European
Murray Hill

Small

Community
AkanAkan

Western Africa

  • Ghana flag
    Ghana
9,231,300
Atlantic-Congo
Flatbush

Small

Residential
AkanAkan

Western Africa

  • Ghana flag
    Ghana
9,231,300
Atlantic-Congo
Shore Acres

Small

Residential
AkanAkan

Western Africa

  • Ghana flag
    Ghana
9,231,300
Atlantic-Congo
University Heights

Large

Residential

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