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Van Nest

Bronx
In the Census-defined PUMA including Pelham Parkway, Morris Park & Laconia, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) Albanian, Italian, Bengali, and "Niger-Congo languages" 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:

Cypriot Turkish

Kıbrıs Türkçesi
New York's major Turkish-speaking concentrations are in and around Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, where the American Turkish Eyüp Sultan Cultural Center is a gathering place, and Sunnyside in Queens (home to the Turkish Cultural Center Queens), with a substantial community as well in Paterson, New Jersey (centered in part on the United Islamic Center). This includes speakers of a number of Oghuz varieties from west of the Caucasus, including Istanbul, Black Sea, Anatolian, and Bulgarian Turkish — as well as speakers of Cypriot Turkish, who have a community in the Bronx.

Urdu

اردو
Joining earlier South Asian Muslim communities in the city, Urdu speakers from Pakistan and India began arriving in New York in large numbers in the 1960s, with the community doubling in size in the 1990s alone. Though there are significant clusters of Urdu speakers today in every borough, the largest and most visible community is Brooklyn's Little Pakistan in Kensington and Midwood, roughly centered along Coney Island Avenue from Avenue H to Foster Avenue. As the national language, Urdu is a lingua franca, but many are speakers of Pashto, Punjabi, Balochi, Sindhi, Saraiki, and Pothwari as well as smaller languages including Wakhi, Burushashki, Balti. After 9/11, the community faced significant pressure from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, with many deported and others leaving voluntarily. Many have also moved south towards Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, and Coney Island. Other significant Pakistani communities, including many mosques and community organizations, can be found in Astoria, Jackson Heights, Jamaica, Concord, and Parkchester.

Yemeni Arabic

لهجة يمنية
The newest and perhaps fastest-growing Yemeni neighborhood in the city is in the Van Nest/Morris Park section of the Bronx, anchored by a Yemeni Community Center on Rhinelander Avenue.
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