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11234 11234 11236 11236 11208 11208 11207 11207 11235 11235 11215 11215 11214 11214 11203 11203 11229 11229 11223 11223 11211 11211 11209 11209 11232 11232 11230 11230 11210 11210 11220 11220 11224 11224 11228 11228 11204 11204 11222 11222 11212 11212 11219 11219 11239 11239 11201 11201 11206 11206 11226 11226 11231 11231 11221 11221 11233 11233 11218 11218 11213 11213 11238 11238 11237 11237 11216 11216 11225 11225 11205 11205 11217 11217 11251 11251 Distribution of Languages Spoken in Brooklyn New York City Office of Emergency Management 0 1 2 3 4 0.5 Miles 3/21/03 SPANISH RUSSIAN CHINESE YIDDISH FRENCH ARABIC HEBREW ITALIAN POLISH FRENCH CREOLE A household is considered linguistically isolated if 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 people 5 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 411,346 Russian 135,980 Chinese 108,614 Yiddish 70,858 French Creole 61,217 Italian 48,076 French 36,645 Polish 32,509 Hebrew 25,980 Arabic 24,968 Urdu 15,541 Indic languages other than Hindi, Urdu and Gujarathi 14,235 African languages 10,397 Greek 9,630 Other Indo-European languages 8,483 Other Asian languages 6,971 Korean 5,740 Tagalog 5,700 Other Slavic languages 5,272 German 4,673
