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Homecrest

Brooklyn
In the Census-defined PUMA including Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen Beach & Homecrest, according to recent Census data, (in descending order), Russian, Cantonese, Hebrew, Urdu, Italian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian 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:

Azeri

Azərbaycanca
The first wave of Azeri-Americans came during and following the Second World War, with many having been prisoners of war. New York City has been the main destination, especially southern Brooklyn (home to the Azerbaijan Association of NY and restaurants like Old Baku), as well as parts of New Jersey including Newark (home to the Azerbaijan Society of America). There are 4,709 Azerbaijan-born Americans in NYC, according to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, although many likely speak Russian or Juhuri, the language of the large Jewish community in Azerbaijan and Daghestan now also in Brooklyn. In addition to North Azeri speakers from Azerbaijan, there are also likely to be Iranian (South) Azeri speakers.

Biblical Hebrew

לשון הקודש‬
Biblical Hebrew is the language of most of the Hebrew Bible, later evolving into Mishnaic and Medieval Hebrew, all of which served as the basis for Modern Hebrew, whose revival in the late 1800s (after centuries of inactivity) remains a remarkable linguistic feat. The degree of similarity between Biblical and Modern Hebrew is debated, as the two share much vocabulary, but lack common syntactic patterns. As a liturgical language, Biblical Hebrew continues to be central to a traditional Jewish education and plays a major role at most Jewish institutions in New York, such as Brooklyn's Mirrer Yeshiva, Yeshiva University in Washington Heights, and at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey.

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

לשון התרגום
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic is a variant of Aramaic — the group of Semitic languages spoken for millennia, principally in what is now the Middle East — that was used approximately from the 4th to 11th century C.E. and is still studied by observant Jews today because it is the language of the Talmud, the central text of Rabbinic Judaism. Knowledge of Aramaic for Talmud studies is common among observant Jews worldwide, and nowhere more so than at renowned institutions of Jewish learning like Midwood's Mirrer Yeshiva or Washington Heights' Yeshiva University.

Lezgi

Лезги
In recent years, small numbers of individuals and families from the highly multilingual Caucasus have come to New York, settling primarily in and around the post-Soviet world of Brighton Beach, though not much information is known. Besides speakers of the major national languages, there are reported to be some Lezgis (some apparently connected with the city's Azeri community), Avars, Chechens, and Ingush. At least for short periods there have also been speakers of Haput and Lak in the city. An older North Caucasian community, where Circassians are most numerous, exists in Paterson, New Jersey.

Moroccan Judeo-Arabic

إلعربية ديالنا
Depending on where they lived, Moroccan Jews tended to be speakers either of Ladino (in places like Tetouan or Tangier) or Moroccan Judeo-Arabic (in places like Fez or Marrakesh), with some also speaking Amazigh (Berber) languages and many, especially in most recent times, also speaking Moroccan Arabic and the widespread colonial language, French. Within New York's Moroccan Jewish community — which includes synagogues in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn but is relatively small compared to other Jewish communities and to the Moroccan Jewish communities in Israel, France, Spain, and Latin America — there are a few who remember what was sometimes called il-‘arbiyya dyalna (our Arabic) in contrast to il- ‘arbiyya dil-msilmin (the Arabic of the Muslims) spoken by other Moroccans.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Syrian Judeo-Arabic
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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
AbruzzeseAbbruzzésə

Southern Europe

  • Italy flag
    Italy
Indo-European
Astoria

Small

Residential
AbruzzeseAbbruzzésə

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

  • South Africa flag
    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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