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Greenwich Village

Manhattan
In the Census-defined PUMA including Battery Park City, Greenwich Village & Soho, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) French, Italian, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Russian each have at least 1000 speakers. English and Spanish varieties are widely 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:

Istro-Romanian

Vlashki
Istro-Romanian (also known today as Vlashki or Zheyanski after the villages where it is spoken) today has roughly 1,000 speakers worldwide and is severely endangered, according to the linguists Zvjezdana Vrzic and John Singler. According to their estimates, there may be several hundred speakers in Croatia today, but possibly more in diaspora with as many as 400-500 speakers primarily in the United States (especially New York City) and in western Australia. Within New York, most Istro-Romanian speakers have lived in parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Astoria, while present-day Istro-Romanian poet/musician Silvana Brkarić Krculić lives near Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Still in existence today, the Istrian Seamen Benevolent Society was founded in 1924 at 823 Greenwich Street in Manhattan near where many were living at the time, primarily single men from eastern Istrian towns such as Brdo, Čepić, Šušnjevica, Kožljak, and Kršan (according to a Croatia Week report).

Lakota

Lakȟótiyapi
Lakota speakers may have been living in and around New York City for some time. In the last few years, as a joint effort of the American Indian Community House, the Language Conservancy and New York University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, an intensive Lakota Language Weekend (held at NYU) has brought speakers and learners together. Tiokasin Ghosthorse—a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota—has long hosted the Manhattan-based First Voices Radio.

Ligurian

Ligure
Despite the overwhelming presence of southerners, almost all of Italy's substantial linguistic diversity has at one time or another been represented in the New York City area. Northern Italians, especially Ligurians from Chiavari south of Genoa, but also those from Piedmont and Tuscany, were numerous among the earlier arrivals in the mid-19th century, but there also appears to have been a variety of other northerners. Relatively little is known about the trajectory of the smaller northern Italian communities, which seem to have started moving out of Little Italy already in the 1880s towards the southern section of Greenwich Village, where many worked as artisans and assimilated relatively rapidly.

Lombard

Lombard
Despite the overwhelming presence of southerners, almost all of Italy's substantial linguistic diversity has at one time or another been represented in the New York City area. Northern Italians, especially Ligurians from Chiavari south of Genoa, but also those from Piedmont and Tuscany, were numerous among the earlier arrivals in the mid-19th century, but there also appears to have been a variety of other northerners. Relatively little is known about the trajectory of the smaller northern Italian communities, which seem to have started moving out of Little Italy already in the 1880s towards the southern section of Greenwich Village, where many worked as artisans and assimilated relatively rapidly.

Tuscan

Toscano
Despite the overwhelming presence of southerners, almost all of Italy's substantial linguistic diversity has at one time or another been represented in the New York City area. Northern Italians, especially Ligurians from Chiavari south of Genoa, but also those from Piedmont and Tuscany, were numerous among the earlier arrivals in the mid-19th century, but there also appears to have been a variety of other northerners. Relatively little is known about the trajectory of the smaller northern Italian communities, which seem to have started moving out of Little Italy already in the 1880s towards the southern section of Greenwich Village, where many worked as artisans and assimilated relatively rapidly.
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