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Ocean Hill-Brownsville

Brooklyn
In the Census-defined PUMA including Brownsville & Ocean Hill, according to recent Census data, Haitian Creole and "Niger-Congo Languages" 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:

Garifuna

Garifuna
Eastern Brooklyn, including a swath of neighborhoods centered on Brownsville, is a major center for Belizean Garifuna, who largely settled among other English speakers from the Caribbean. Linden Park in Brooklyn is a major gathering point, and some have moved into Queens, including Far Rockaway. Settlement Day, celebrated at Our Lady of Mercy Church on Mother Gaston Boulevard, is an annual commemoration of the exile from St. Vincent.

Judeo-Crimean Tatar

Krymchak
Today, there are few, if any, remaining speakers anywhere of Judeo-Crimean Tatar, also known as Krymchak, once spoken by a portion of the Crimea's Jewish population, but some Krymchak migrants came to New York beginning in 1915 and in 1920 organized The First Brotherhood of Crimean Jews of America and used a house on Saratoga Avenue in East New York as a synagogue. Other Krymchaks came in the 1930 and 40s, some via Palestine, forming a community of approximately 250 who also often spoke English, Russian, and Yiddish in addition to Krymchak.

Yiddish

יידיש
After the Lower East Side and Harlem, Brooklyn became the next major destination for working-class Yiddish-speaking Jews in the early 20th century, with Brownsville and East New York becoming home to hundreds of thousands. While this community had largely moved away by the 1950s, Yiddish speakers have continued to live throughout the borough, with large numbers in Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and elsewhere.
Additional languages spoken in this neighborhood:
  • African-American English
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