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Morris Park

Bronx
In the Census-defined PUMA including Pelham Parkway, Morris Park & Laconia, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) Albanian, Italian, Bengali, and "Niger-Congo languages" are recorded as having over 1000 speakers. Varieties of English and Spanish are widely spoken.
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Languages with a significant site in this neighborhood, marked by a point on the map:

Italian English

Italian English
Italian English is what linguists sometimes call an "ethnolect", a sometimes distinct variety of English spoken by Italian Americans, with influence from (especially Southern) Italian varieties. Many who use it are native speakers either of Italian languages (sometimes called "dialetti") like Sicilian or Italian itself. While the majority of Italian immigrants to the New York area were native speakers of forms of Sicilian, Neapolitan, Calabrese, and Pugliese, there was widespread shift to English and to some extent Italian in the subsequent generations. Today, major areas for Italian English include Bensonhurst, Middle Village, Morris Park, Dyker Heights, and much of Staten Island.

Mandarin

普通话, 國語
Although it was not widely spoken in New York until recent decades, Mandarin today is probably today the city's third most widely spoken language and a lingua franca connecting Chinese New Yorkers from a variety of linguistic backgrounds—though not all speak it and in certain neighborhoods Cantonese or Fujianese, for example, remain important. Numerous, largely mutually intelligible Mandarin varieties are spoken in the city, from the originally Beijing-based standard "Putonghua" promoted by the mainland government to the Taiwanese Mandarin most widely used there. Particularly in Flushing there are also many speakers of Northeast Mandarin (from the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang) as well as of Southwest Mandarin (particularly those from Sichuan), as well as a growing community of Hui (Muslim) Chinese who speak forms of Northwestern Mandarin related historically to Dungan.

Moroccan Arabic

الدارجة المغربية
Though smaller the communities from Egypt, Yemen, and the Levant, Moroccan New Yorkers form a substantial and growing group within Arabic-speaking parts of the city, with institutions to match such as the Moroccan American Association House in Bay Ridge and Moroccan-American Cultural Association in Morris Park in the Bronx. Some Moroccan New Yorkers are also speakers of French (still a language of higher education in the country) as well as Indigenous Amazigh languages such as Tashelhyt.

Neapolitan

Nnapulitano
Neapolitan, a lingua franca spoken across much of southern Italy for centuries, remained to some degree a lingua franca for the mostly southern Italian immigrants who entered New York in large numbers beginning in the late 19th century. In the following decades, Neapolitan music, particularly songs sung in Neapolitan, became big business both in Italy and New York. To some extent, local related varieties from surrounding provinces are also grouped under Neapolitan, though they remain distinct. In the New York area, this has included "Irpino" speakers such as the many Sturnese speakers from Sturno (Avellino province) who came to work in mansions on the North Shore of Long Island (later in landscaping and in light bulb factories) and now make up a significant community in Glen Cove. Likewise Long Island City's Societa Sant’ Amato Di Nusco has represented speakers of Nuscano from the town of Nusco (also Avellino).
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • Italian
  • Yemeni Arabic
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