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South Ozone Park

Queens
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:

Caribbean Hindustani

Caribbean Hindustani
Caribbean Hindustani is a broad term referring to the use of North Indian languages spoken by the descendants of indentured laborers brought to the Caribbean, mostly from what are today the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand. Depending on where speakers live, there is variation in terms of how the language is used, named, and influenced by surrounding languages. It is known as Sarnami in Suriname, where today the language is strongest due to local factors involving education, literature, and music. In Guyana and Trinidad, some may refer it to with the term Bhojpuri, one of the major Indian languages involved. While fewer people in the Indo-Caribbean diaspora still speak the long marginalized language, there are efforts today to document and value it at institutions like the Rajkumari Cultural Center in South Ozone Park, a major center of NYC's Indo-Caribbean community, which is largely from Guyana and Trinidad.

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.

Guyanese Creole

Creolese
Unlike Afro-Guyanese migrants to New York, most Indo-Guyanese chose to settle in Queens (especially Richmond Hill and Ozone Park) near other Indo-Caribbean and South Asian communities, with some also settling in the Bronx (where the Shri Vishnu Mandir is one religious institution). A number of distinctively Indo-Caribbean Hindu temples have also been built across Brooklyn and Queens, where some combination of English, Hindi, and Sanskrit may be used, and there are also Indo-Caribbean Tamil New Yorkers.

Italian

Italiano
According to Census data, Queens and Brooklyn together account for two thirds of the Italian speakers in New York City, itself the most Italian-speaking city in the U.S. Though some of these are likely to be speakers of Sicilian,, Neapolitan, and other Italian languages, many are postwar migrants who ultimately settled in areas including Astoria, Ozone Park, Corona, Douglaston-Little Neck, and Rigewood-Middle Village. Queens is also home to a few communities speaking very different northern varieties, such as Nones and Friulian.

Trinidadian Creole

Trini Talk
New York is a major center of the Trinidadian and Tobagonian diaspora, with most Afro-Trinidadians living in Brooklyn, in a range of neighborhoods stretching from Crown Heights to Canarsie and Indo-Trinidadians, like most Indo-Guyanese, living in the Queens neighborhoods of Richmond Hill and Ozone Park. Most Trinidadians from both communities use the English-based creole, sometimes called Trini Talk, as a language of daily life distinct from "standard English". A smaller but still significant number of New Yorkers also have knowledge of the distinct Tobagonian Creole. (The endangered Trinidadian French Creole may also be known by some.) 2015-2019 American Community Survey data estimated that 79,175 New Yorkers were born in Trinidad and Tobago, a large percentage of whom are likely to be Creole speakers, even if they were recorded as being speakers of English (81,381) with smaller numbers speaking other languages: Spanish (1,002), French (346), Hindi (156), Urdu (8), Bengali (71), and more.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Ndyuka
  • Punjabi
  • Sarnami
  • Sranan Tongo
  • Surinamese Dutch
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