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Jewish English

  • ISO 639-3: eng
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Jewish English is what linguists sometimes call an "ethnolect", a distinct variety of English spoken by many New York Jews, with influence from Yiddish and Hebrew — other terms include Yinglish and Yeshivish. Speakers are typically in largely Jewish neighborhoods, today principally inhabited by observant Jews, some of whom may be native Yiddish speakers and know English as a second language, such as Williamsburg, Borough Park, Riverdale, and Kew Gardens Hills — or in areas outside the city like Rockland and Sullivan County, once home to the Borscht Belt (where Jewish English was played for laughs) and home today to large Hasidic communities.
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NYC neighborhoods or towns in the metro region where the language community has a significant site, marked by a point on the map:

Brooklyn

Borough Park
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Nassau

Hewlett (NY)
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Queens

Kew Gardens Hills
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Sullivan

Monticello (NY)
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Bronx

Riverdale
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Additional neighborhoods (NYC only)

  • Forest Hills
  • Midwood
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