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Part 1 Introduction to the multilingual apple: New York'smultilingualism - world languages and their role in a U.S. city, OfeliaGarcia. Part 2 The language of early arrivals - still encountered: Irish in19th-century New York, Kenneth E, Nilsen; German in New York, John R.Costello;; Yiddish in New York, Hannah Kliger, Rakhmiel Peltz. Part 3 Thelanguages with vitality in the past and the present: Italian in New York,Hermann W. Haller; Greek in New York, Chrysie M. Costantakos, John N.Spiridakis; Spanish in New York, Ana Celia Zentella; Hebrew in New York,Alvin I. Schiff. Part 4 The languages with the newest sounds and of newestfaces: Chinese in New York, Shiwen Pan; The languages of India in New York,Kamal K. Sridhar; Haitian Creole in New York, Carole M. Berotte Joseph;English Caribbean language in New York, Lise Winer, Lona Jack. Part 5Concluding observations to the multilingual apple: do ethnics have culture?and what's so special about New York anyway? Joshua A. Fishman.