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Crown Heights

Brooklyn
In the Census-defined PUMA including Crown Heights North & Prospect Heights, according to recent Census data, Haitian Creole and French each have more than 1000 speakers. Varieties of English and Spanish are commonly spoken in the area as well.
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Belizean Creole

Kriol
Belize became part of the British Empire in 1862, deepening the influence of English — which had already been present, especially on the Caribbean coast for at least the previous 100-200 years. Today English is the official language, but the English-based Belizean Creole is the principal language of daily life. As in other Caribbean societies, many people have command of a whole spectrum of registers depending on the occasion. Belizeans in New York live primarily in Brooklyn, with a concentration in eastern Crown Heights and the surrounding neighborhoods, and many in the community are Garifuna, a group with roots in both Africa and the Caribbean that is also working to preserve its own distinctive native language.

Chiricahua Apache

Ndee Biyáti'
Artist Jason Lujan is a speaker of Chiricahua Apache, and artist Maria Hupfield is an Anishinaabemowin speaker — they were married and living in Crown Heights as of 2017.

Gen-Gbe

Gen-Gbe
An artist from Benin living in Crown Heights speaks Gun-Gbe, Gen-Gbe, and Fon, all major languages of Benin which may have numerous speakers in the city.

Gun-Gbe

Fon
An artist from Benin living in Crown Heights speaks Gun-Gbe, Gen-Gbe, and Fon, all major languages of Benin which may have numerous speakers in the city.

Hebrew

עברית
The movement to revitalize Hebrew as a spoken language in Europe and Palestine had many adherents in the New York Jewish community, beginning on the Lower East Side, where (as elsewhere in the Jewish diaspora) there was a long tradition of reading and writing, though usually not speaking, Hebrew. The growth of an Israeli community in New York following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 — including many who had only lived in Israel for a few years before moving to America — solidified the presence of Hebrew in New York as an everyday spoken language. Israeli New Yorkers are scattered throughout the city, but are generally more numerous in traditionally Jewish neighborhoods like the Upper West Side and Forest Hills, though there are also distinctly Israeli concentrations in a few city neighborhoods and in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. Many Orthodox and Hasidic New Yorkers, particularly in Brooklyn, have knowledge of Hebrew due both to traditional learning and transnational ties.

Litvish Yiddish

ליטװיש יידיש
Litvish Yiddish, based on northeastern Yiddish varieties, has been maintained to a degree by the Lubavitch community in Crown Heights and by other Haredi/Yeshivish with roots in Lithuania and the surrounding region. Lakewood, New Jersey, with one of the world's largest yeshivas, is a significant center of scholarship following to a degree in the Litvish tradition, and one person reports its use in the Bais Hatalmud community of Bensonhurst.

Ojibwe

Anashinaabemowin
Artist Jason Lujan is a speaker of Chiricahua Apache, and artist Maria Hupfield is an Anishinaabemowin speaker — they were married and living in Crown Heights as of 2017.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Barbadian Creole
  • Grenadian Creole
  • Guyanese Creole
  • Jamaican Patois
  • Panamanian English
  • Panamanian Spanish
  • Trinidadian Creole
  • Vincentian Creole
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