Neighborhood

Woodside

Queens
In the Census-defined PUMA including Sunnyside & Woodside, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) Bengali, Mandarin, Nepali, Cantonese, and Tibetan each hold more than 1000 speakers. English, Spanish, Tagalog, and Korean 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:

Aklanon

Akeanon
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Banguingui

Sama
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Bicolano

Bikol
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Bolivian Quechua

Runasimi
In addition to the largest number of speakers of Ecuadorian Kichwa in different parts of the metro area, there are also smaller communities speaking other varieties of Quechua from Peru and Bolivia, with dialects not necessarily differentiated strictly by country. ELA has worked with the New York Quechua Initiative to present classes taught by Brooklyn-based Peruvian Quechua speaker Elva Ambia. Another community institution, based in Queens, is the Sisa Pakari Cultural Center, and there are speakers as well within the significant Peruvian communities of New Jersey.

Cebuano

Sugbuanon
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Chavacano

Chavacano
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Gyalsumdo

घ्याल्सुम्दो
Besides Manang and Nar-Phu, Gyalsumdo is one of three related languages spoken in the Manang region of Nepal, each of which has speakers in New York. Those who speak Gyalsumdo have organized the Ghyalsumdo Sewa Sanstha USA, with its headquarters on the Jackson Heights/Elmhurst border, where most speakers live.

Hyolmo

ཡོལ་མོ་སྐད​་
Anchored by the Hyolmo Society of America, there is a large Hyolmo community (speaking a Tibetic language variety of the same name) living within the Tibetan/Himalayan neighborhoods of western and central Queens, estimated by one community member at around 400.

Ibaloy

Inibaloi
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Ibanag

Ibanag
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Ilocano

Iloko
The Ilocano diaspora in the US is concentrated in Hawai'i, where they originally worked in the pineapple plantations alongside Japanese, Native Hawai'ians and others. Ilocanos have been particularly active in literary production and are one of the few lowland Christian groups in the Philippines to have preserved a precolonial epic (Biag ni Lam-ang, The life of Lam-ang). The Ilocano writers association, GUMIL, has active branches both in the Philippines and in Hawai'i. Here in NYC, the Ilocanos form a part of the larger Filipino community in Queens, which is home to the Ilocano-American Association, Inc. in New York (IAAINY), founded in 1982. The current president of the IAAINY has proudly passed on the language to her children in NYC.

Ilonggo

Hiligaynon
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Iranun

Iranun
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Kaike

Kaike
One community member estimates that in New York there are at least 300 people classified in Nepal as Magar, including ~200 Dhut Magar, ~100 Kham Magar, ~25 Kaike Magar. Despite the Magar classification, each of these is a distinct language, and it is unclear to what extent these individuals speak their languages in New York or have shifted to Nepali. Those who have settled in New York are primarily in Queens (as is the Magar Association USA), particularly Jackson Heights, Elmhurt, Sunnyside, and Woodside.

Kham Magar

मगर खाम
One community member estimates that in New York there are at least 300 people classified in Nepal as Magar, including ~200 Dhut Magar, ~100 Kham Magar, ~25 Kaike Magar. Despite the Magar classification, each of these is a distinct language, and it is unclear to what extent these individuals speak their languages in New York or have shifted to Nepali. Those who have settled in New York are primarily in Queens (as is the Magar Association USA), particularly Jackson Heights, Elmhurt, Sunnyside, and Woodside.

Kinaray-a

Kinaray-a
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Loke

གློ་སྐད་
Through Queens-based organizations like the Mustang Kyidug, the Lo Nyamship Association, and others, speakers of the Tibetic language varieties Loke (from Upper Mustang) and Dzardzongke (from Lower Mustang/Baragaun) are working simultaneously to maintain their traditions and to adapt to American life. The community comes together not only for major occasions like Tibetan New Year (Losar) and Phaknyi, but also for monthly "Mani gatherings" for prayer, usually held in a private apartment. The majority of New York-based Mustangis live in western and central Queens, from Astoria to Elmhurst, but a small number of Baragaun speakers have recently moved to Richmond Hill and elsewhere in the borough.

Magar

मगर
One community member estimates that in New York there are at least 300 people classified in Nepal as Magar, including ~200 Dhut Magar, ~100 Kham Magar, ~25 Kaike Magar. Despite the Magar classification, each of these is a distinct language, and it is unclear to what extent these individuals speak their languages in New York or have shifted to Nepali. Those who have settled in New York are primarily in Queens (as is the Magar Association USA), particularly Jackson Heights, Elmhurt, Sunnyside, and Woodside.

Maguindanao

Magindanawn
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Maithili

मैथिली
Maithili-speaking communities originally from both India and Nepal have grown up in Jackson Heights, Corona (near Queens Mall), Woodside, in Long Island (near Hicksville), and in Edison, New Jersey. Smaller cohorts also exist in Staten Island, around the Interfaith Hospital in Brooklyn, and by Yonkers Avenue near the Empire City Casino. One community member estimated that there are at least 400 speakers in New York City, who have often found work in hotels, hospitals, nail salons, and casinos, while another person estimated that there may be as many as 10,000 Maithilis in the metropolitan area.

Maranao

Mëranaw
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Pampangan

Kapampangan
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Pangasinan

Pangasinan
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Peruvian Quechua

Runasimi
In addition to the largest number of speakers of Ecuadorian Kichwa in different parts of the metro area, there are also smaller communities speaking other varieties of Quechua from Peru and Bolivia, with dialects not necessarily differentiated strictly by country. ELA has worked with the New York Quechua Initiative to present classes taught by Brooklyn-based Peruvian Quechua speaker Elva Ambia. Another community institution, based in Queens, is the Sisa Pakari Cultural Center, and there are speakers as well within the significant Peruvian communities of New Jersey.

Philippine English

Philippine English
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Tagalog

Tagalog
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Tamang

तामाङ
One community member estimates that more than 1,000 Tamang people are now in New York, though there is substantial diversity in what it means to be Tamang and a number of different languages may be involved. Many in New York may come from the Kathmandu Valley, Chitwan, and Gorkha District, with an estimated 40 to 50 coming from the Western Tamang districts of Nuwakot, Dhading, and Rasuwa where knowledge of Tibetan, practice of shamanism, and a historical connection to the salt trade are more prominent. The Tamang Society of America is one community institution.

Tausug

Bahasa Sūg
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Tibetan

བོད་སྐད་
Most Tibetan New Yorkers have settled in the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Corona among other South Asian and Himalayan communities. The growing community is creating and maintaining a tremendous range of communal, political, cultural, artistic, and other organizations, prominent among them the Tibetan Community of New York & New Jersey (with its Woodside headquarters) and the New York Tibetan Service Center in Elmhurst, which runs a wide variety of programs. (ELA recognizes that the Chinese government's rule in Tibet, where this language is spoken, is disputed.)

Waray-Waray

Waray-Waray
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.

Yakan

Yakan
Some of the earliest Filipino communities in the city formed around port areas and military installations, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and later Governors Island. Today, a section of Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside is the major center for Tagalog speakers, and speakers of other languages of the Philippines, both for New York City and for the entire U.S. east of the Mississippi. There are other concentrations in every borough — often formed near hospitals where Filipina women have been employed in healthcare work — and individual speakers throughout the city. Among the largest of the other communities are Cebuano and Ilocano speakers, and a distinctive Philippine English is also spoken by many. According to 2015-2019 American Community Survey data, 7,987 Tagalog speakers also live in Jersey City, a major community.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Amdo Tibetan
  • Bhojpuri
  • Breton
  • Colombian Spanish
  • Dzongkha
  • Irish
  • Khalkha Mongolian
  • Kham Tibetan
  • Limi
  • Maithili
  • Manang
  • Mugu
  • Nar-Phu
  • Nepali
  • Newari
  • Northern Thai
  • Nubri
  • Ramaluk
  • Sharchop
  • Sherpa
  • Thai
  • Thakali
  • Tö Tibetan
  • Walung
  • Ü-Tsang Tibetan
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AbakuáAbakuá

Caribbean

  • Cuba flag
    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

  • South Africa flag
    South Africa
  • Zimbabwe flag
    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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