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Claremont

Bronx
In the Census-defined PUMA including Concourse, Highbridge & Mount Eden, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) "Niger-Congo languages", Mande, and French are recorded as having over 1000 speakers. Varieties of English and Spanish are widely spoken.
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Dagaare

Dagaare
New York is home to a large and growing Ghanaian community centered on "Little Accra" in the Bronx stretching from the Grand Concourse up to Tracey Towers, with Ghanaian English and Twi serving as widely-known lingua francas. Ashanti, Akuapem (Twi), and Fante are all considered mutually intelligible varieties of Akan. Ghanaian New Yorkers from Accra, or who spent significant time in Accra, may be Ga speakers, and in the Bronx community there are also speakers of smaller languages such as Dagaare and Dagbani. The first wave of Ghanaians came to the city after the coup in 1966, with some working with the Black Star Line (Ghana Shipping Company) as seamen, and a large number arriving starting in the 1980s. There are now smaller communities in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, New Jersey, and Westchester. Those from northern Ghana may be part of the Yankasa Association, based in the Bronx. Records indicate that many of the enslaved Africans brought to New York in the 17th and 18th centuries may have been speakers of Akan varieties.

Gourmanché

Gourma
At least one speaker of Gourmanché, one of the Gurma languages spoken in Burkina Faso and neighboring countries, was reported as living in the Bronx as of 2018.

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Kriol
Guinea-Bissau Creole is a Portuguese-based creole spoken principally as a second language not only in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau but in neighboring Senegal and The Gambia. While some speakers may be associated with Guinea-Bissau's UN mission, at least a few others are reported to live in the Bronx, possibly including individuals from Casamance, the region in Senegal where forms of Portuguese have a significant history.

Sierra Leone Creole

Krio
Krio is an English-based creole widely spoken across Sierra Leone by people with many different other native languages. Today the language may be used among in the city's growing Sierra Leonean community, several thousand strong, many of whose members came following the civil war of the 1990s and settled in the Bronx, Staten Island, an elsewhere.
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