1319: New York's Melting Pot Jul 22, 2018

New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the entire world, with an estimated 800 languages spoken therein. Originally too, the term 'melting pot' was first used to describe the Lower East Side neighborhood in Manhattan, which has always had a high immigrant population. Most of the languages that are spoken are done so by small groups of people relative to the total population however, as English and then Spanish are spoken in large numbers. In the outer boroughs though, and especially in Queens, English is less spoken than elsewhere.
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