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Parkchester

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In the Census-defined PUMA including Castle Hill, Clason Point & Parkchester, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) Bengali, "Niger-Congo languages", and French 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:

Bengali

বাংলা
Moving beyond Manhattan and Queens, Bengali-speaking neighborhoods have developed across the metropolitan area. Church Avenue in Brooklyn's Kensington is a major hub where Bangladeshis from a variety of backgrounds come together, not far from the major Pakistani hub on Coney Island Avenue. The Bengali-speaking community in and around Parkchester in the Bronx has also grown and expanded in recent years. In Paterson, New Jersey, a stretch of Union Avenue between Sheridan and Wayne was recently officially named "Bangladesh Boulevard".

Bomu

Bomu
A Pana speaker from Mali (near the Burkina Faso border) who was living in this area of the Bronx reported having learned Bomu as a third or fourth language in his home region, and reported encountering some other speakers in the Bronx.

Ecuadorian Spanish

Español Ecuatoriano
Ecuadorians form by far the largest South American community in the city, and New York is the undisputed capital of Ecuadorian-American life. Starting in the 1960s and 1970s with a more middle-class professional group migrating especially from around Guayaquil, the NYC community increased dramatically following economic turmoil in the 1990s with large numbers coming from across the country but especially the heavily Indigenous (sometimes Kichwa-speaking) south-central highlands of Azuay-Cañar. A range of Queens neighborhoods including Corona and Ridgewood are major centers, but there are also sizeable communities in Bushwick, Parkchester, and many towns in New Jersey and upstate New York.

Pana

Pana
One Pana speaker now living in the Bronx comes originally from the Mali side — there are also speakers in Burkina Faso — said he knows of two or three speakers in Harlem.

Serer

Seereer
Besides the national language Wolof and Fulani, Serer may be the most widely known language of Senegal within New York's sizeable and growing Senegalese community — with the largest numbers living in Harlem and in pockets across the Bronx.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Amharic
  • Ecuadorian Kichwa
  • Sylheti
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