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Distribution of Languages Spoken in Brooklyn

New York City Office of Emergency Management

0 1 2 3 40.5Miles

3/21/03

SPANISH RUSSIAN CHINESEYIDDISH

YIDDISHFRENCHCREOLE

FRENCH ARABICARABIC HEBREWITALIAN POLISH

FRENCHCREOLE

A household is considered linguistically isolatedif no one in the household, age 14 or over, speaks English very well.

Linguistically isolated households

Less than 10%

10 - 30%

30 - 50%

More than 50%

Language spoken at home by people5 years or older 1 Dot = 150 people

Spanish

Russian

Chinese

Yiddish

French Creole

Italian

Polish

Hebrew

Arabic

French

Source: Census 2000 Summary File 3,tables PCT10 and P20

Zipcode boundaries

Number of people who speak language at home

Spanish 411,346Russian 135,980Chinese 108,614Yiddish 70,858French Creole 61,217Italian 48,076French 36,645Polish 32,509Hebrew 25,980Arabic 24,968Urdu 15,541Indic languages other than Hindi, Urdu and Gujarathi 14,235African languages 10,397Greek 9,630Other Indo-European languages 8,483Other Asian languages 6,971Korean 5,740Tagalog 5,700Other Slavic languages 5,272German 4,673