Interesting article about a concentration of Seke speakers (an extremely rare Nepalese language) in Flatbush, Brooklyn:
Just 700 Speak This Language (50 in the Same Brooklyn Building)
Seke, one of the world’s rarest languages, is spoken by about 100 people in New York.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/07/n...hki-wakhi.html
The apartment building, in Brooklyn’s Flatbush neighborhood, is a hive of nationalities. A Pakistani woman entered the elevator on a recent afternoon with a big bag of groceries, flicking a dupatta over her shoulder as a Nepalese nurse and the janitor, a man from Jamaica there to mop up a spill, followed her in.
It was hardly an unusual scene in New York, one of the world’s most diverse cities. But this nondescript, seven-story brick building is also the improbable home to some of the last speakers of a rare, unwritten language from Nepal that linguists worry could disappear within a generation, if not sooner.