800 Languages Spoken in New York City

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800 Languages Spoken in New York City

Postby CarlyD » Fri Feb 17, 2017 4:41 am

I don't know if that's true or not, but this article talks about all the languages being spoken today in Queens, and my heritage Gottscheerisch is number 12.

http://www.businessinsider.com/queens-l ... map-2017-2
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Re: 800 Languages Spoken in New York City

Postby Jar-Ptitsa » Fri Feb 17, 2017 1:07 pm

CarlyD wrote:I don't know if that's true or not, but this article talks about all the languages being spoken today in Queens, and my heritage Gottscheerisch is number 12.

http://www.businessinsider.com/queens-l ... map-2017-2


Very interesting!!

I hadn't heard of Gottscheerisch so I searched and on wikipedia I found this translation. It looks very different than German, but when you read it, obvioulsy it's a German dialect:

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