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Tremont

Bronx
In the Census-defined PUMA including Belmont, Crotona Park East & East Tremont, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) "Niger-Congo languages", French, Mande, and Fulani are recorded as having over 1000 speakers. Varieties of English and Spanish are widely spoken.
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Bafut

Bafut
The city's Cameroonian community is relatively small, with most people in and around the East Tremont section of the Bronx and a few in Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey. However, given the country's linguistic diversity, there are a number of associations for speakers of different Cameroonian languages, including Basaa, Ewondo, Fe'fe, Ghomala, Limbum, Medumba, and Shupamem, each of which may have up to a few hundred speakers in the city. There are also speakers of Duala, Bafut, and Lamnso. Most have reportedly shifted to French or English, beginning in Cameroon's major cities, and to some extent there may be use of the local English and French varieties, Kamtok and Camfranglais.

Cameroonian Pidgin English

Kamtok
The city's Cameroonian community is relatively small, with most people in and around the East Tremont section of the Bronx and a few in Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey. However, given the country's linguistic diversity, there are a number of associations for speakers of different Cameroonian languages, including Basaa, Ewondo, Fe'fe, Ghomala, Limbum, Medumba, and Shupamem, each of which may have up to a few hundred speakers in the city. There are also speakers of Duala, Bafut, and Lamnso. Most have reportedly shifted to French or English, beginning in Cameroon's major cities, and to some extent there may be use of the local English and French varieties, Kamtok and Camfranglais.

Camfranglais

Camfranglais
Camfranglais apparently formed as a hybrid language, based on French, among young people from many different linguistic backgrounds in the cities of Yaoundé or Douala in Cameroon. It may be used to a limited extent among Francophone Cameroonians in New York.

Duala

Duala
The city's Cameroonian community is relatively small, with most people in and around the East Tremont section of the Bronx and a few in Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey. However, given the country's linguistic diversity, there are a number of associations for speakers of different Cameroonian languages, including Basaa, Ewondo, Fe'fe, Ghomala, Limbum, Medumba, and Shupamem, each of which may have up to a few hundred speakers in the city. There are also speakers of Duala, Bafut, and Lamnso. Most have reportedly shifted to French or English, beginning in Cameroon's major cities, and to some extent there may be use of the local English and French varieties, Kamtok and Camfranglais.

Fe'fe'

Fe'fe'
The city's Cameroonian community is relatively small, with most people in and around the East Tremont section of the Bronx and a few in Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey. However, given the country's linguistic diversity, there are a number of associations for speakers of different Cameroonian languages, including Basaa, Ewondo, Fe'fe, Ghomala, Limbum, Medumba, and Shupamem, each of which may have up to a few hundred speakers in the city. There are also speakers of Duala, Bafut, and Lamnso. Most have reportedly shifted to French or English, beginning in Cameroon's major cities, and to some extent there may be use of the local English and French varieties, Kamtok and Camfranglais.

Lamnso

Lamnso
The city's Cameroonian community is relatively small, with most people in and around the East Tremont section of the Bronx and a few in Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey. However, given the country's linguistic diversity, there are a number of associations for speakers of different Cameroonian languages, including Basaa, Ewondo, Fe'fe, Ghomala, Limbum, Medumba, and Shupamem, each of which may have up to a few hundred speakers in the city. There are also speakers of Duala, Bafut, and Lamnso. Most have reportedly shifted to French or English, beginning in Cameroon's major cities, and to some extent there may be use of the local English and French varieties, Kamtok and Camfranglais.

Limbum

Limbum
The city's Cameroonian community is relatively small, with most people in and around the East Tremont section of the Bronx and a few in Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey. However, given the country's linguistic diversity, there are a number of associations for speakers of different Cameroonian languages, including Basaa, Ewondo, Fe'fe, Ghomala, Limbum, Medumba, and Shupamem, each of which may have up to a few hundred speakers in the city. There are also speakers of Duala, Bafut, and Lamnso. Most have reportedly shifted to French or English, beginning in Cameroon's major cities, and to some extent there may be use of the local English and French varieties, Kamtok and Camfranglais.

Mende

Mɛnde yia
The Mande language family comprises dozens of related languages spoken by tens of millions of people across West Africa. The most widely spoken Mande languages in New York belong to a subgroup called Manding, originally connected to the Mali empire which lasted until the 17th century and today forming a language and dialect continuum from Senegal to Burkina Faso. Among the most widely spoken Manding languages both in West Africa and New York are Bambara (Mali), Dyula (Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso), Maninka (Guinea), and Mandinka (Gambia), which are substantially mutually intelligible. In fact, those who use the N'ko alphabet may refer to these varieties collectively as N'ko (which roughly translates to "I say" in all these varieties). New York today is home to over 12,000 "Mande" speakers according to (the likely very low figure in the) 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, with speakers often living near each other in parts of Harlem and the central Bronx.

Shupamem

ꛀꛣꚧꚳ
Shupamem speaker and linguist Laziz Nchare estimates that there are at least 300 Shupamem speakers in the city, represented by two associations and living primarily in this section of the Bronx (from 161th Street and Park Avenue and 180th Street and Washington Avenue).

Temne

KʌThemnɛ
Temne, one of Sierra Leone's most widely spoken languages, is one of the principal languages spoken by Sierra Leonean New Yorkers, including many who fled the country during its recent civil war. Sierra Leoneans now live throughout the metropolitan area, with concentrations in Staten Island, the Bronx, and Queens.

Vietnamese

Tiếng Việt
Few Vietnamese speakers lived in New York before 1975, when the fall of Saigon drove large numbers of South Vietnamese to come to the United States as refugees. Some Vietnamese migrants had married U.S. servicemen, but a much larger number, including many Hoa (or ethnic Chinese), came as "boat people" fleeing repression in the following years. A substantial Vietnamese community, speaking Southern varieties, called New York home by the 1990s, with no single center but concentrations in or near Chinese areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan (considering degrees of cultural and linguistic kinship) and an apparently more heavily Kinh community in the Bronx with its own Buddhist temple (Chieu Kien) and a Vietnamese-language mass at St. Nicholas of Tolentine. Quite distinct is a smaller grouping of North Vietnamese who have come as educational migrants and professionals in recent years.

Yemba

Yemba
The city's Cameroonian community is relatively small, with most people in and around the East Tremont section of the Bronx and a few in Brooklyn, Queens, and New Jersey. However, given the country's linguistic diversity, there are a number of associations for speakers of different Cameroonian languages, including Basaa, Ewondo, Fe'fe, Ghomala, Limbum, Medumba, and Shupamem, each of which may have up to a few hundred speakers in the city. There are also speakers of Duala, Bafut, and Lamnso. Most have reportedly shifted to French or English, beginning in Cameroon's major cities, and to some extent there may be use of the local English and French varieties, Kamtok and Camfranglais.
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AbakuáAbakuá

Caribbean

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    Cuba
Lower East Side

Smallest

Liturgical
AbazaАбаза

Western Asia

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

Smallest

Residential
Abruzzese (Orsognese)Abruzzésë

Southern Europe

  • Italy flag
    Italy
Indo-European
Astoria

Small

Residential
Abruzzese (Orsognese)Abruzzésë

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
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    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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