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Kingsbridge

Bronx
In the Census-defined PUMA including Riverdale, Fieldston & Kingsbridge, according to recent Census data, Russian and "Niger-Congo languages" are recorded as having over 1000 speakers. Varieties of English and Spanish are widely spoken.
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Languages with a significant site in this neighborhood, marked by a point on the map:

Bambara

(ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲ (ߒߞߏ
Bambara speakers are likely to be found within the fast-growing community of Malian New Yorkers, some of whom do business at the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market, but the largest number of whom are reported to live in the Bronx, with a smaller number in Queens. The Malian Community Center is one community institution.

Chuj

Chuj
At least one speaker of the Mayan language Chuj, speaking the variety from San Mateo Ixtatan in Guatemala, lives in the Bronx and works as a Spanish-Chuj interpreter by telephone. While there may be other Chuj speakers in the New York area as well, significant numbers have settled in recent decades in the southeastern U.S.

Efik

Efik
A substantial community from southeast Nigeria has been established in New York in recent years, including speakers of Efik from in and around Calabar in Cross River State, and speakers of the related Ibibio and Anaang from the state of Akwa Ibom. Many work in healthcare. According to one community member, there may be several thousand community members in the metropolitan area, not only in the Bronx but across Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester, Orange County, and New Jersey.

Greek

Ελληνικά
Beginning in the late 19th century, one early Greek-speaking cluster had formed around Madison Street on the Lower East Side (where a community of Greek Jews appears to have also used Judeo-Greek) and in the east and west 20s and 30s, where a section of 8th Avenue was home to nightclubs where Armenian, Greek, and Turkish musicians peformed. Besides the central hub in Queens, Greek clusters also formed in Bay Ridge (with its numerous Greek institutions), in the Bronx (still home to the Kassian Brotherhood for those from Kasos), New Jersey, and beyond. Greek Orthodox Churches, where Koine Greek is the liturgical language, are found in Greek communities across the region.

Khmer

ភាសាខ្មែរ
The Cambodian Civil War and the Khmer Rouge killings under Pol Pot drove hundreds of thousands of Cambodians to flee the country, including roughly 10,000 Khmer who made their way as refugees to the Bronx (home to Wat Jotanaram and other institutions) during the 1980s and 90s, with a smaller community near Watt Samaki, a Cambodian Buddhist temple in Brooklyn. At a time when neighborhoods like Fordham, University Heights, and Bronx Park East saw frequent violence, the Cambodian community — disproportionately young and still recovering from the killings — struggled with poverty and invisibility and many left the Bronx's "Little Cambodia" for other parts of the country.

Korean

한국어
Queens represents the major Korean hub in the eastern United States and an important area for the global Korean diaspora, with roughly 65% of NYC Korean community living from Jackson Heights to Flushing, Murray Hill, Auburndale, Bayside, and Douglaston-Little Neck, with Northern Boulevard a vital corridor. Many varieties of Korean are spoken here, and in the area there is also a distinct and substantial Korean-Chinese community (Joseonjok), whose variety of Korean is related to the Hamgyŏng dialect of the northeast. A smaller Korean community in the Bronx, mostly elderly, gathers at the Bronx Korean American Senior Citizens Association, while younger Korean families in Brooklyn send their children to the Brooklyn Korean School.

Nepali

नेपाली
Nepali in New York is spoken by a diverse range of individuals and communities not just from native Nepali-speaking Brahmin and Chhetri groups, but as a second (and increasingly first) language by significant numbers of ethnic minorities from Nepal's Himalayan north, middle hills, and southern reaches near India. There are also Nepali-speaking Lhotsampa refugees originally from Bhutan (primarily now resettled in the Bronx) and some Nepali speakers from India.

Songhay

Songhay
Not much information is known, but there appear to be communities speaking different Songhay varieties from both Mali (e.g. Koyraboro Senni) and Niger (Zarma) in the Bronx and in Harlem.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Russian
  • Twi
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