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Whitestone

Queens
In the Census-defined PUMA including Flushing, Murray Hill & Whitestone, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) Mandarin, Cantonese, Greek, Russian, Bengali, Italian, and Croatian each have more than 1000 speakers. English, Korean, 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:

Cilentano

Cilendano
Cilentano varieties from the Italian region of Campania, including parts of the province of Salerno, are spoken by a number of different communities in New York, including those with roots in Sacco (with the Associazione Sacchesi D'America in Whitestone), Sanza (with the Society-St Mary of the Snow in Williamsburg), and Caggiano (with the Association Caggianesi D’America in Gravesend).

Pugliese (Conversanese)

Conversanese
Pugliese is an umbrella term for a number of very different varieties from the southern Italian region of Puglia (or Apulia). Many communities from across the region have taken root and formed clubs in New York, especially from in and around the city of Bari, including groups from Bitetto and Conversano. Early on, Barese speakers had a strong presence first in coal and later ice delivery. Across much of southern Brooklyn, a long-established community from Mola di Bari maintains several clubs and speaks a variety broadly similar to the Casamassimese maintained by a family in Jersey City, and the Molfettese known to many in Hoboken. Writer Annie Rachele Lanzillot has written of growing up in the Bronx hearing her family's Acquavivese dialect. Noted poet Joseph Tusiani, long resident in New York, spoke and wrote in the Garganico variety from the area around San Marco in Lamis. Others may have roots in and around Foggia, with its distinct variety.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Greek
  • Istro-Veneto
  • Mandarin
  • Molisan
  • Taiwanese
  • Wenzhounese
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