Neighborhood

Dyker Heights

Brooklyn
In the Census-defined PUMA including Bay Ridge & Dyker Heights, according to recent Census data, (in descending order), Cantonese, Russian, Greek, Italian, Mandarin, Polish, and Urdu each have more than 1000 speakers. Varieties of English, Spanish, and Chinese are commonly spoken in the area as well.
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Languages with a significant site in this neighborhood, marked by a point on the map:

Coptic

ϯⲙⲉⲧⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ
Coptic, the last descendant of the Egyptian language of the pharaohs, serves as the liturgical language for Egyptian Christians who now speak Egyptian Arabic in daily life. Still spoken in daily life possibly through the 17th century, it lives on today across the metropolitan area at Coptic Orthodox churches in Jersey City, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and elsewhere.

Italian English

Italian English
Italian English is what linguists sometimes call an "ethnolect", a sometimes distinct variety of English spoken by Italian Americans, with influence from (especially Southern) Italian varieties. Many who use it are native speakers either of Italian languages (sometimes called "dialetti") like Sicilian or Italian itself. While the majority of Italian immigrants to the New York area were native speakers of forms of Sicilian, Neapolitan, Calabrese, and Pugliese, there was widespread shift to English and to some extent Italian in the subsequent generations. Today, major areas for Italian English include Bensonhurst, Middle Village, Morris Park, Dyker Heights, and much of Staten Island.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Calabrese (Gioiosano)
  • Italian
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