Language
Brooklyn has a high degree of linguistic diversity. In the 2000 United States Census 46.7% of the population reported speaking a language other than English at home (either exclusively or in addition to English). The most prevalent other language identified was Spanish, spoken at home by 18.00% of the population. Additionally, 5.95% of the population reported speaking Russian, 4.19% Haitian Creole, 3.92% Chinese, 3.10% Yiddish, 2.10% Italian, 1.42% Polish, 1.13% Hebrew, and 1.09% Arabic. Other languages spoken at home by at least 5000 people include Cantonese, Urdu, Bengali, Greek, Korean, Tagalog, and Albanian.
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Famous quotes containing the word language:
“I invented the colors of the vowels!—A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green—I made rules for the form and movement of each consonant, and, and with instinctive rhythms, I flattered myself that I had created a poetic language accessible, some day, to all the senses.”
—Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)
“Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier.”
—Louise Bogan (1897–1970)
“Though language forms the preacher,
‘Tis “good works” make the man.”
—Eliza Cook (1818–1889)