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Park Slope

Brooklyn
In the Census-defined PUMA including Park Slope, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook, according to recent Census data, French and Italian each have more than 1000 speakers. Varieties of English and Spanish are commonly 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:

Dutch

Nederlands
Nowhere did Dutch last longer than the Hudson River Valley, where it was used in towns such as Kingston and even more so in rural areas as late well into the 19th century. In what is today the city, it was on the large Dutch family farms of Brooklyn, among families such as the Leffertses (as in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens) and Wyckoffs (as in Wyckoff Avenue), that Dutch persisted longest. Old Stone House in Park Slope is a 1933 reconstruction of the Vechte–Cortelyou House, a Brooklyn Dutch farmhouse of the Revolutionary era. Many Dutch speakers today are more recent arrivals either from the Netherlands, living in areas of Manhattan and Brooklyn not far from their forebears, or else from former Dutch colonies like Surinam and living in areas like South Ozone Park in Queens.

Israeli Sign Language

שפת הסימנים הישראלית
According to one estimate, there are at least 10 Israelis of diverse backgrounds scattered across the U.S. who sign ISL, including several living in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. For the last decade they have gathered once or twice a year, no matter where they live, for the visit of a Deaf rabbi from Israel — most recently at the private home of one signer near Prospect Park.

Istro-Romanian

Vlashki
Istro-Romanian (also known today as Vlashki or Zheyanski after the villages where it is spoken) today has roughly 1,000 speakers worldwide and is severely endangered, according to the linguists Zvjezdana Vrzic and John Singler. According to their estimates, there may be several hundred speakers in Croatia today, but possibly more in diaspora with as many as 400-500 speakers primarily in the United States (especially New York City) and in western Australia. Within New York, most Istro-Romanian speakers have lived in parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Astoria, while present-day Istro-Romanian poet/musician Silvana Brkarić Krculić lives near Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Still in existence today, the Istrian Seamen Benevolent Society was founded in 1924 at 823 Greenwich Street in Manhattan near where many were living at the time, primarily single men from eastern Istrian towns such as Brdo, Čepić, Šušnjevica, Kožljak, and Kršan (according to a Croatia Week report).

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.

Koryo-Mar

고려말
An estimated 1,000 Koryo-saram, mostly from Uzbekistan, live across the city, primarily in Russian-speaking neighborhoods of Brooklyn such as Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach, where there are two Koryo-saram restaurants and at least one church (All Nations Baptist in Park Slope) geared towards Koryo-saram. Few in the community still speak the distinct Koryo-Mar variety of Korean, which showed some phonological differences from the South Korean standard language [표준어], a fact possibly connected to the more northern origins of the Koryo-saram. Most Koryo-saram in New York now speak Russian, English, and to some extent the Korean standard. The Koryo-saram descend from ethnic Korean immigrants to Russia, especially the Russian Far East, who faced forced mass migration to Central Asia in 1937.

Newfoundland English

Newfoundland English
A substantial number of migrants from Newfoundland, speaking the Canadian region's highly distinctive varieties of English, apparently once called Brooklyn home, particularly in the first half of the 20th century.

Peruvian Quechua

Runasimi
In addition to the largest number of speakers of Ecuadorian Kichwa in different parts of the metro area, there are also smaller communities speaking other varieties of Quechua from Peru and Bolivia, with dialects not necessarily differentiated strictly by country. ELA has worked with the New York Quechua Initiative to present classes taught by Brooklyn-based Peruvian Quechua speaker Elva Ambia. Another community institution, based in Queens, is the Sisa Pakari Cultural Center, and there are speakers as well within the significant Peruvian communities of New Jersey.
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AbakuáAbakuá

Caribbean

  • Cuba flag
    Cuba
Lower East Side

Smallest

Liturgical
AbazaАбаза

Western Asia

  • Turkey flag
    Turkey
  • Russia flag
    Russia
49,800
Abkhaz-Adyge
Wayne (NJ)

Smallest

Residential
AbruzzeseAbbruzzésə

Southern Europe

  • Italy flag
    Italy
Indo-European
Astoria

Small

Residential
AbruzzeseAbbruzzésə

Southern Europe

  • Italy flag
    Italy
Indo-European
Little Italy

Small

Historical
AcehneseBahsa Acèh

Southeastern Asia

  • Indonesia flag
    Indonesia
3,500,000
Austronesian
Astoria

Smallest

Community
AcehneseBahsa Acèh

Southeastern Asia

  • Indonesia flag
    Indonesia
3,500,000
Austronesian
Elmhurst

Smallest

Residential
AdjoukrouMɔjukru

Western Africa

  • Ivory Coast flag
    Ivory Coast
140,000
Atlantic-Congo
Concourse

Smallest

Residential
AdygheК|ахыбзэ

Western Asia

  • Turkey flag
    Turkey
  • Russia flag
    Russia
117,500
Abkhaz-Adyge
Wayne (NJ)

Small

Residential
AfenmaiAfenmai

Western Africa

  • Nigeria flag
    Nigeria
270,000
Atlantic-Congo
Castle Hill

Smallest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Bedford-Stuyvesant

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Newark (NJ)

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Clifton

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Hollis

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Edenwald

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Central Harlem

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

  • United States flag
    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Hempstead (NY)

Large

Residential
AfrikaansAfrikaans

Southern Africa

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    South Africa
  • Zimbabwe flag
    Zimbabwe
17,543,580
Indo-European
Murray Hill

Small

Community
AkanAkan

Western Africa

  • Ghana flag
    Ghana
9,231,300
Atlantic-Congo
Flatbush

Small

Residential
AkanAkan

Western Africa

  • Ghana flag
    Ghana
9,231,300
Atlantic-Congo
Shore Acres

Small

Residential
AkanAkan

Western Africa

  • Ghana flag
    Ghana
9,231,300
Atlantic-Congo
University Heights

Large

Residential

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