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

Irish

Gaeilge
The Irish community in Queens developed rapidly in the 20th century. Significant Irish- and Irish English-speaking communities still stretch across Sunnyside, Woodside, Rockaway, Breezy Point, Middle Village, and other areas of Queens. The New York Irish Center in Long Island City is one of a number of organizations involved in teaching, maintaining, and spreading the language among both native speakers and second-language learners — and there is an active literary scene too.

Irpino

Irpino
Neapolitan, a lingua franca spoken across much of southern Italy for centuries, remained to some degree a lingua franca for the mostly southern Italian immigrants who entered New York in large numbers beginning in the late 19th century. In the following decades, Neapolitan music, particularly songs sung in Neapolitan, became big business both in Italy and New York. To some extent, local related varieties from surrounding provinces are also grouped under Neapolitan, though they remain distinct. In the New York area, this has included "Irpino" speakers such as the many Sturnese speakers from Sturno (Avellino province) who came to work in mansions on the North Shore of Long Island (later in landscaping and in light bulb factories) and now make up a significant community in Glen Cove. Likewise Long Island City's Societa Sant’ Amato Di Nusco has represented speakers of Nuscano from the town of Nusco (also Avellino).
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