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Koryo-Mar
    Central AsiaUzbekistan flagUzbekistanRussia flagRussia
    An estimated 1,000 Koryo-saram, mostly from Uzbekistan, live across the city, primarily in Russian-speaking neighborhoods of Brooklyn such as Bensonhurst and Brighton Beach, where there are two Koryo-saram restaurants and at least one church (All Nations Baptist in Park Slope) geared towards Koryo-saram. Few in the community still speak the distinct Koryo-Mar variety of Korean, which showed some phonological differences from the South Korean standard language [표준어], a fact possibly connected to the more northern origins of the Koryo-saram. Most Koryo-saram in New York now speak Russian, English, and to some extent the Korean standard. The Koryo-saram descend from ethnic Korean immigrants to Russia, especially the Russian Far East, who faced forced mass migration to Central Asia in 1937.
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