Towns

The NYC metro region, including hundreds of smaller cities and large towns, is increasingly linguistically diverse. The map shows signficant sites and does not try to list every language spoken in every town. The focus is on communities speaking less common languages, with significant sites in certain towns.
Bayonne (NJ)
Sicilian
Boonton (NJ)
Croatian
Brentwood (NY)
Central American Spanish
Brewster (NY)
Central American Spanish
Bridgeport (CT)
Cape Verdean Creole, Nahuatl, Puerto Rican Spanish
Bridgewater (NJ)
Pochury, Tamil
Centereach (NY)
Thai
Clifton (NJ)
Cuicatec, Sierra Totonac
Deal (NJ)
Syrian Judeo-Arabic
Dover (NJ)
Uzbek
East Orange (NJ)
Amharic, Tangkhul
Edison (NJ)
Ao, Gujarati, Hindi, Iyengar Tamil, Kodava...
Elizabeth (NJ)
Colombian Spanish, Kinyarwanda, Serbian
Fair Lawn (NJ)
Hebrew, Poqomchi'
Fairfield (CT)
Slovenian
Fairview (NJ)
K'iche', Kaqchikel
Flemington (NJ)
Lenape (Munsee)
Floral Park (NY)
Burushaski, Syro-Malankara Syriac
Fort Lee (NJ)
Japanese
Franklin Square (NY)
Low German
Garfield (NJ)
Macedonian, Tosk Albanian
Glen Cove (NY)
Irpino
Glen Rock (NJ)
Cantonese
Great Neck (NY)
Iraqi Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Neo-Aramaic (Bijar), Jewish Neo-Aramaic (Urmia), Judeo-Isfahani, Judeo-Shirazi...
Hackettstown (NJ)
Bosnian
Haworth (NJ)
Turoyo Neo-Aramaic
Hempstead (NY)
African-American English, Jamaican Patois
Hewlett (NY)
Jewish English
Hicksville (NY)
Dari, Hindi, Kabli, Kandhari, Pashto...
Highland Park (NJ)
Mazanderani
Hillsborough (NJ)
Malayalam
Hoboken (NJ)
German, Pugliese (Molfettese)
Howell (NJ)
Kalmyk
Inwood
Arbëresh
Jericho (NY)
Mandarin
Jersey City (NJ)
Coptic, Dzardzongke, Egyptian Arabic, Gikuyu, Gujarati...
Kearny (NJ)
Hidatsa, Scots
Kent (CT)
Mohican
Kerhonkson (NY)
Ukrainian
Kingston (NY)
Dutch, Q'eqchi'
Kiryas Joel (NY)
Hasidic Yiddish
Lakewood (NJ)
Biblical Hebrew, Litvish Yiddish
Larchmont (NY)
French
Laurence Harbor (NJ)
Marathi
Linden (NJ)
Polish
Mahwah (NJ)
Lenape (Munsee)
Manalapan Township (NJ)
Burmese
Manville (NJ)
Georgian, Rusyn
Milltown (NJ)
Breton
Montauk (NY)
Montaukett
Monticello (NY)
Jewish English
Morristown (NJ)
Mam
Mt. Vernon (NY)
Brazilian Portuguese
New Brunswick (NJ)
Hungarian, Triqui, Zacaptec Mixtec, Zapotec
New Haven (CT)
Marchigiano, Nahuatl, Quiripi
New Milford (NJ)
Kurdish, Western Armenian
New Rochelle (NY)
Jamaican Patois
Newark (NJ)
African-American English, Azeri, Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Cape Verdean Creole...
North New Hyde Park (NY)
Memoni
Norwalk (CT)
Pontic Greek
Ossining (NY)
Ecuadorian Spanish
Palisades Park (NJ)
Jeju-eo, Korean
Paramus (NJ)
Syriac
Passaic (NJ)
Hungarian, Puerto Rican Spanish
Paterson (NJ)
Bengali, Bribri, Chechen, Karachay-Balkar, Peruvian Spanish...
Pearl River (NY)
Irish English
Perth Amboy (NJ)
Dominican Spanish
Plainfield (NJ)
Luganda
Plainsboro (NJ)
Assamese
Plainview (NY)
Kannada
Pomona (NY)
Avestan, Zoroastrian Dari
Poospatuck Reservation - Mastic (NY)
Unkechaug
Port Chester (NY)
Bolivian Spanish, Calabrese (Sanfilese)
Poughkeepsie (NY)
Zapotec
Princeton (NJ)
Mandarin, Sinhalese
Red Hook (NY)
Mohican
Riverhead (NY)
Kaqchikel, Polish
Roslyn (NY)
Judeo-Kashani
Sea Cliff (NY)
Russian
Shinnecock Reservation - Southampton (NY)
Shinnecock
South Bound Brook (NJ)
Ukrainian
South River (NJ)
Belarusian
Spring Valley (NY)
Ecuadorian Kichwa, Haitian Creole
Suffern (NY)
Jersey Dutch
Terryville (CT)
Lemko
Toms River (NJ)
Bhojpuri
Trenton (NJ)
Lenape (Unami), Lucano
Trumbull (CT)
Aromanian
Tuckahoe (NY)
Italian English
Union City (NJ)
Cuban Spanish, Dominican Spanish
Valley Stream (NY)
Hiri Motu, North Frisian, Tawala
Walden (NY)
Tibetan
Walkill (NY)
Sherpa
Walpack (NJ)
Lenape (Munsee)
Waterbury (CT)
Beneventano, Geg Albanian
Wayne (NJ)
Abaza, Adyghe, Bzedukh, Kabardian, Shapsug...
White Plains (NY)
Guarani, Paraguayan Spanish
Woodland Park (NJ)
Rusyn
Yonkers (NY)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, Dominican Spanish, Herero, Latvian, Lemko...
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