The Republic

Languages Spoken in New York. The following languages are daily spoken in New York: English, Irish, (Celtic,) Gaelic, Welsh, Dutch, (i. e. Hollandisch,) German, (i. e. Deutsch,) Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Russian, Polish, Wendish, (the Northern branch,) French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Magyar, Turkish, Greek, (modern,) Hebrew, (modern,) Arabic, (Mogrebin or Tunisian dialect,) Kroo, Bengalee, Chinese, Hawaiian. And it is probable that during a large portion of every year persons meet who speak and use in the daily exigencies of life, Eroquois, Cherokee, Choctaw, Ojibwa, Mohegan, Tahitian, Flemish, Frisian, Basque, Slovack, Lettish, Finnish, Armenian, Cingalese, Malay, Siamese. Perhaps also Persian, Malagasse, Kosso, Susu, Jaloff, Mandingo, Congo, Maroon, and twenty others.

It is probable that perhaps, with the exception of Rome and London, greater variety of tongues are heard in the streets of New York than in any other city of the world. The variety of its journals certainly surpasses that of any other city. There are printed in New York papers in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Hollandish, Norwegian, and Welsh, and several large establishments are daily engaged in the publication of several works in some eight or ten of the Oriental and North American dialects.