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Yorkville

Manhattan
In the Census-defined PUMA including the Upper East Side, according to recent Census data, (in descending order) French and Cantonese each have at least 1000 speakers. English and Spanish varieties are widely 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:

Balti

بلتی
Approximately 300 speakers of Balti, Ladakhi, and Purgi — related languages from the neighboring Himalayan borderlands containing Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan Province and the disputed Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh areas under Indian control — have settled around the New York area, including the suburbs, with one of the longest-standing members of the community living in the east 90s in Manhattan. All speak Tibetic languages; Balti speakers are Shia Muslims who may use the Perso-Arabic script to write their language. Baltis who came to New York via Islamabad or Karachi may now be primarily Urdu speakers.

Bartangi

Bartangi
Bartangi is spoken by several thousand ethnic Bartang people, principally in the Bartang Valley within the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, in the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan. Classified as belonging to the Pamir branch of the Eastern Iranian languages, Bartangi is sometimes seen as a dialect of Shughni. Within the larger Pamiri community in New York, for which the Ismaili Jamatkhana is the largest and most significant gathering place (together with other non-Pamiri Ismailis), there are only a handful of Bartangi speakers. The Endangered Language Alliance has worked with two who live in Manhattan. Read more here.

Bavarian

Bairisch
Bavarians, speaking a distinctive Germanic language and proud of their distinctive history and culture, have been a significant component within the city's German community, since at least the 19th century. Distinctly Bavarian enclaves formed early on in what is now the East Village and in Brooklyn. In Yorkville, a variety of Bavarian clubs formed a united organization known as the "Vereinigte Bayern von New York and Umgebung", including the Schuhplattler V.V. (Vergnügungs Verein) "Enzian" group dedicated to Bavarian culture and dance. Along with other Germans, Bavarians moved in large numbers to Queens (and beyond) after the Second World War, and so did groups like the Schuhplattler. Since 1972, Zum Stammtisch restaurant in Glendale has been a gathering place well known for Bavarian-style hospitality.

German

Deutsch
Even as the German community in today's East Village dissolved, a new Kleindeutschland (Little Germany) came into being in Yorkville, by the 1920s and 30s a major national hub for German-Americans (as well as other Central Europeans) and home to a wide array of cultural institutions representing speakers of many different Germanic varieties. Though diminished after the Second World War, Yorkville remained recognizably German to the end of the 20th century, with famed restaurants and stores along 86th Street near 2nd Avenue. St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church still hosts German-language services, and Heidelberg and Schaller and Weber continue the neighborhood's culinary traditions.

Hungarian

Magyar
While the earliest Hungarian communities in New York lived in "three distinct quarters", with the largest on the Lower East Side, the hub for the community soon became Yorkville, where other Germanic and Central European language speakers moved and important institutions include Hungarian House. Some number of older people in the Satmar Hasidic community, originally from Hungary but now based in Brooklyn, are native Yiddish speakers but also have some command of Hungarian. Other significant Hungarian communities formed in New Jersey and included many refugees from the 1956 uprising—significant clusters supporting many different institutions formed in Bergen County (including Passaic, Clifton, Garfield, Wayne, and surrounding areas) as well as New Brunswick's Fifth Ward.
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AbakuáAbakuá

Caribbean

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    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

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    Italy
Indo-European
Astoria

Small

Residential
Abruzzese (Orsognese)Abruzzésë

Southern Europe

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    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

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    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Hollis

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

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    United States
45,109,521
Indo-European
Edenwald

Largest

Residential
African-American EnglishBlack English

Northern America

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    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
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    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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