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Yiddish has been present in the United States since at least the late 19th century and continues to have roughly 148,000 speakers as of the 2009 American Community Survey.
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Today, more than half of the Yiddish speakers in the United States are concentrated in the New York state, with smaller but significant populations in Florida, New Jersey and California.