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DUMBO

Brooklyn
In the Census-defined PUMA including Brooklyn Heights & Fort Greene, according to recent Census data, (in descending order), Yiddish, French, Cantonese, and Mandarin each have more than 1000 speakers. Varieties of English and Spanish are commonly 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:

Amdo Tibetan

ཨ་མདོ་སྐད་
Amdo Tibetan is a broad term covering some of the diverse Tibetic language varieties spoken in Amdo, the traditional province of northeastern Tibet. Queens is the center of gravity for at least half a dozen distinct Amdo organized communities (e.g. those from Kokonor/Tso Ngonpo) representing these quite distinct language varieties. Many Amdo communities have long been nomadic pastoralists. Dorje Ling temple, led in part by a rinpoche from the Golok region of Amdo, is a religious hub for the Brooklyn Himalayan community. The Amdo community may also include a small number of speakers of non-Tibetic languages from Amdo, such as Gyalrong. (ELA recognizes that the Chinese government's rule in Tibet, where this language is spoken, is disputed.)

Classical Tibetan

ཆོས་སྐད་
Tibetan-speaking New Yorkers have come from across the culturally and religiously Tibetan world, including many refugees who immigrate via India and Nepal. There are some institutions more oriented towards Westerners with an interest in Tibet, such as Tibet House in Manhattan, but most Tibetans have settled in the Queens neighborhoods of Astoria, Sunnyside, Woodside, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, and Corona, with smaller numbers in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and others now branching out elsewhere — with important religious centers also upstate in Woodstock and Walden. (ELA recognizes that the Chinese government's rule in Tibet is disputed.)

Konyak

Konyak
Today there may be a small number of speakers of at least 9 different distinct Naga languages — with some also speaking the lingua franca Nagamese — living in New Jersey, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Long Island, according to Abraham Lotha, who is based in Edison and has been working on Lotha, his own mother tongue. The earliest known Naga to come to the United States was Eramo Shanjamo Jungi, who arrived in 1904 with a family of Baptist missionaries returning from Nagaland to their home in Trenton Junction. Shanjamo, who was Lotha, returned to Nagaland in 1908 and played an active role in the Baptist church in India until his death in 1956.

Tagalog

Tagalog
A substantial Filipino community, likely speaking other languages besides Tagalog, formed in and around the Brooklyn Navy Yard around 1900, in part because discharged Filipino sailors could become US citizens. Indeed, at this time the whole zone around the bustling Navy Yard was one of Brooklyn's most diverse, with small Chinese and Japanese communities and many southern and eastern Europeans, among others.
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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

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    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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