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East Williamsburg

Brooklyn
In the Census-defined PUMA including East Williamsburg & Bushwick, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) French, Haitian Creole, Mandarin, and Cantonese each have more than 500 speakers. English and Spanish varieties are widely spoken in the area as well, with Spanish speakers roughly 50% of the PUMA.
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Japanese

日本語
One of the earliest Japanese communities in the city, between the 1910s and 1930s, was centered on the Ichiriki and Taiyo boarding houses on West 65th Street on the northeast side of San Juan Hill, a highly diverse working-class area that was forever altered by the construction of Lincoln Center in the 1950s. Today, Japanese speakers live throughout the city, with notable concentrations in the East Village and in Astoria, and enough parents with young children in Brooklyn to lead to the creation of a dual-language Japanese-English school in East Williamsburg.

Machvaya Romani

Machvaya
One of the earliest reports of Roma in Brooklyn was in 1867, when a camp of what may have been Romanichal, or Travelers, coming from England, was established near what is today Flushing Avenue and Lee Avenue, becoming an overnight sensation among Brooklynites before it was resettled for the winter. Later, a Machvaya (or "Serbian") Roma community took root in Brooklyn—according to one report, many families lived on Varet Street in Williamsburg. In recent years, God's Gypsy Christian Church has hosted services for Roma community members in Sunset Park, as well as in Queens, Staten Island, New Jersey, and elsewhere.
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