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Jamaica Hills

Queens
In the Census-defined PUMA including Elmhurst & South Corona, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) Bengali, Mandarin, Nepali, Cantonese, Hindi, and Tibetan each hold more than 1000 speakers. English, Spanish, and Tagalog 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:

Belarusian

Беларуская
Both the Belarusian Institute of America and the Belarusian Kreceuski Foundation, two organizations dedicated to promoting the community's language and culture, are located in eastern Queens. Members, however, live across the metropolitan area, including as far away as Staten Island and New Jersey, where the town of South River is another important center and home to the St. Euphrosynia Belarusian Orthodox Church.

Classical Arabic

الفصحى
A broad representation of the world's Arabic varieties, as used by Muslims, Christians, and Jews from West Africa to Iraq, can be found across the metropolitan area — although many of them are mutually unintelligible with each other, speakers are able to communicate in the Modern Standard Arabic known as al-fuṣḥā ("the purest", and there is often widespread familiarity with larger varieties like Egyptian Arabic. In the second half of the 20th century, what had been primarily a Levantine Arabic speaking community (by then mostly in Brooklyn) was joined by significant numbers of Egyptian Arabic and Yemeni Arabic speakers, as well as smaller numbers of many other varieties found throughout the city. Significant Arabic-speaking areas include Bay Ridge, Astoria, the Bronx (for West African Arabic speakers), Yonkers, and Paterson, New Jersey. Classical (or Qu'ranic) Arabic flourishes widely at mosques like the Islamic Cultural Center on the Upper East Side and the Jamaica Muslim Center in Queens as well schools like Al-Noor in Brooklyn. Jewish varieties of Arabic, often linked to the local variety of the particular country of origin, are still spoken to some degree among the sizeable Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the city, especially in Brooklyn.

Kashmiri

كأشُر
At least a small number of Kashmiri families are reported as living in the Pakistani hubs of Midwood and Jamaica, but there may be many others living around in the metropolitan area. Many Kashmiris have left the continuing unrest and political struggle in the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmiri, where Kashmiri is the most widespread language.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Greek
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