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Norwood

Bronx
In the Census-defined PUMA including Bedford Park, Fordham North & Norwood, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) Bengali, French, Albanian, and "Niger-Congo languages" are recorded as having over 1000 speakers. Varieties of English and Spanish are widely spoken.
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Amharic

ኣማርኛ
While far smaller than Ethiopian communities in other American cities such as Washington D.C, New York's Ethiopian community is scattered around the city and its suburbs, with clusters around Harlem, the Bronx, and the New Jersey suburbs—in each of which there are Ethiopian Orthodox churches that serve as community hubs for many. Amharic, the main national language, serves as a lingua franca for Ethiopian New Yorkers with other mother tongues.

Anaang

Anaañ
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.

Geʽez

ግዕዝ
Ge'ez, also called Classical Ethiopic, is a liturgical language native to East Africa. Though spoken in Ethiopia and Eritrea throughout the first millennium CE, the language has been exclusively written since the 13th century. The golden age of Ge'ez literature ran from the 13th to the 17th century, producing important Ethiopian texts like Mats'hafe Berhan ("The Book of Light") and Fetha Negest ("Laws of the Kings"). Unlike most other Semitic languages, Ge'ez is written and read from left to right. Harlem and the Bronx are home to two Ethiopian Orthodox Churches, where core Ge'ez texts continue to be read and studied.

Gurage

ጉራጌ
Gurage, a less commonly spoken language of Ethiopia, was reported to be spoken by at least one individual living in the Bronx.

Ibibio

Ibibio
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.

Sylheti

ꠍꠤꠟꠐꠤ
Among the first wave of Bengali speakers who made their way to New York—many of them ex-seamen who settled on the Lower East Side and in East Harlem, as told by Vivek Bald in Bengali Harlem—were many who also spoke Sylheti, the related language variety from Sylhet in what is now northeastern Bangladesh. A distinct Sylheti community remains in those neighborhoods today, exemplified by the East Village's Madina Masjid and the small restaurant row on East 6th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues, which began in the 1970s. Other small Sylheti communities continue in Harlem and parts of Brooklyn, and in general Sylhetis constitute a significant portion of the sizeable Bangladeshi community in the New York metro area, with communities apparently existing in most areas with other Bengali speakers.

Yiddish

יידיש
The Bronx became a major new area of settlement for Jews leaving the Lower East Side in the 1920s and 1930s, with the more prosperous clustering around the Grand Concourse and more working-class people in the South or East Bronx. Many neighborhoods remained substantially Yiddish speaking, with Yiddish theaters, schools, and a rich institutional life. Shift to English usually came within a generation or two, though some avowed Yiddishists worked to maintain language at key sites, including on Bainbridge Avenue in the Bronx where the "Bainbridgivke" community formed in the 1960s and some speakers still gather today.
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