World Region

Caribbean

Abakuá

Abakuá
Lower East Side

Antigua and Barbuda Creole

Creole
Central Harlem

Bahamian Creole

Bahamianese
Central Harlem

Barbadian Creole

Bajan
Cambria Heights, East Flatbush

Caribbean Hindustani

Caribbean Hindustani
South Ozone Park

Cuban Spanish

Español Cubano
Corona, Financial District, Union City (NJ)

Dominican Creole (English)

Dominican Creole (English)
Flatbush

Dominican Creole (French)

Kwéyòl
Flatbush

Dominican Spanish

Español Dominicano
Corona, Cypress Hills, Perth Amboy (NJ), Union City (NJ), University Heights...

Garifuna

Garifuna
Charlotte Gardens, East Harlem, Far Rockaway, Ocean Hill-Brownsville

Grenadian Creole

Patois
Canarsie, Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Guadeloupean Creole

Kréyòl Gwadloup
Flatbush

Haitian Creole

Kreyol Ayisyen
Canarsie, East Flatbush, Queens Village, Spring Valley (NY), Upper West Side...

Jamaican Patois

Patwa
East Flatbush, Flatbush, New Rochelle (NY), St. Albans, Wakefield...

Lukumí

Lukumí
Bushwick, Fordham

Martinican Creole

Kréyòl Matinik
Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Montserrat Creole

Creole
Central Harlem

Papiamento

Papiamentu
Flatbush

Puerto Rican Sign Language

Puerto Rican Sign Language
Upper East Side

Puerto Rican Spanish

Español Puertorriqueño
Bridgeport (CT), East Harlem, Lower East Side, Mott Haven, Passaic (NJ)...

St. Kitts Creole

Creole
Co-op City

St. Lucian Creole (English)

St. Lucian Creole (English)
East Flatbush

St. Lucian Creole (French)

Kwéyòl
East Flatbush

Taíno

Taíno
Inwood

Tobagonian Creole

Dialect
Canarsie

Trinidadian Creole

Trini Talk
Canarsie, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, South Ozone Park, Wakefield

Vincentian Creole

Vincy
Prospect Lefferts Gardens

Virgin Islands Creole

Dialect
Concourse
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