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Ozone Park

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In the Census-defined PUMA including Howard Beach & Ozone Park, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) Bengali, Panjabi, Urdu, and Italian each hold more than 1000 speakers. English, Chinese and Spanish 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:

Garo

আ·চিক
According to one community member, approximately 20-30 Garo speakers from Bangladesh live in Jackson Heights and Ozone Park. As of 2017, some were working at the Heart of India restaurant in the East Village.

Rangpuri

রংপুরী
Sometimes considered varieties of Bengali, to which they are related but not always mutually intelligible, Rangpuri, Chittagonian, Noakhailla (and closely related Sandwippa) are all significant language varieties of Bangladesh spoken in their respective regions. While Bengali may be used as a lingua franca with other Bangladeshis, many speakers may use these at home or within their own communities, represented by organizations such as the Rangpur Zilla in Ozone Park, and the Chittagong Association, Sandwip Association, and Greater Noakhali Association (all in Brooklyn).

Sanskrit

संस्कृतम्
With a history of roughly 3,500 years, Sanskrit is an Indo-European language (distantly related to English, Russian, and Latin, among others) that has dominated religious and philosophical practices in South and East Asia, and was considered to be the lingua franca of both ancient and medieval India. Today, Sanskrit remains important as the sacred language of Hinduism, as well as some Buddhist and Jain traditions. Hinduism's worldwide following of nearly one billion people recite texts in Sanskrit at weddings, funerals, and annual festivals. New York's sizeable Hindu communities — South Asians at the Flushing temple, Indo-Caribbeans at a range of temples in Richmond Hill, Ozone Park and elsewhere — make frequent use of Sanskrit materials and knowledge.

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.

Ukrainian

Українська
Large numbers of immigrants from what is today Ukraine first arrived in New York in the 1880s. Many in the earliest period were Lemkos (or Carpatho-Rusyns) from western Ukraine; many others were also Yiddish-speaking Jews. In the mid-20th century, a distinctive Little Ukraine arose in what is now considered the East Village, including many refugees from Soviet rule in Ukraine and a significant number of intellectuals, writers, and artists. Other Ukrainian communities have formed in Brooklyn (where the Little Odessa in Brighton Beach was at first primarily Jewish but came to include more recent Ukrainian immigrants), and in Queens among Polish neighbors. Significant Ukrainian communities and institutions exist in central New Jersey (mother church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church) and upstate New York (the Soyuzivka Heritage Center) as well.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Guyanese Creole
  • Indian English
  • Pothwari
  • Urdu
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