Burkinabé Americans

Burkinabé Americans
Total population
(5,000-6,000)
Regions with significant populations
New York City, Washington, D.C.
Languages
French, Mossi, Dyula, Gurma, Senufo
Religion
Islam, Christianity, Traditional African religion

Burkinabé Americans are Americans of Burkinabé descent. The cities with the most significant population are: New York City and Washington, D.C.,^[1] and there is also a community in Texas. Burkinabé Americans speak several African languages, being the most spoken the Moore, Dioula, Gurma, and Senufo, they also speak French (as second language) and English. In 2009 there were an estimated 5,000-6000 Burkinabé immigrants. However, many Burkinabeses live of illegal way in United States.^[1]

The main areas of Burkinabé concentration organize cultural activities in order to establish helps to the Burkinabe who have difficulties in administration and integration into American society.^[1]

References

1 2 3 (French) Burkinabe immigration in the U.S.A.. posted in July 2009.

External links

African immigration to the United States

North Africa

Horn of Africa

Southeast Africa

Burundian
Kenyan
Rwandan
South Sudanese
Tanzanian
Ugandan

Southern Africa

Central Africa

West Africa

African ethnic groups in United States¹

¹Several African ethnic groups are dispersed throughout different areas of Africa, regardless of countries or regions.

Ancestry and ethnicity in the United States

Africa	North Africans Algerian Berber Canarian Egyptian (Coptic) Libyan Mauritanian Moroccan Sudanese Tunisian Horn of Africans Djiboutian Eritrean Ethiopian Somali Southeast Africans Kenyan South Sudanese Tanzanian Ugandan Southern Africans Angolan Malawian South African Zimbabwean Central Africans Congolese Cameroonian Gabonese Equatoguinean West Africans Beninese Burkinabé Cape Verdean Gambian Ghanaian Guinea-Bissauan Guinean Ivorian Liberian Malian Nigerian (Igbo, Yoruba) Nigerien Senegalese Sierra Leonean Togolese Fula

Asia	Asian Hispanic and Latino Bangladeshi Bhutanese Burmese Cambodian Chinese Hong Kong Taiwanese Tibetan Filipino Hmong Indian Indo-Caribbean Bengali Punjabi Tamil Indonesian Japanese Korean Laotian Malaysian Mongolian Nepalese Pakistani Baloch Pashtun Punjabi Singaporean Sri Lankan Tamil Thai Uzbek Vietnamese

Europe	Albanian Armenian Austrian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Belgian Bosnian British Cornish English Manx Scotch-Irish Scottish Welsh Bulgarian Croatian Cypriot Czech Silesian Danish Dutch Flemish Estonian Finnish French Breton Corsican Georgian German Frisian Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Sicilian Kazakh Latvian Liechtensteiner Lithuanian Luxembourg Macedonian Maltese Moldovan Montenegrin Norwegian Polish Kashubian Portuguese Romanian Russian Chechen Cossack Kalmyk Rusyn Sami Sammarinese Serbian Slovak Slovene Sorbian Spanish Asturian Catalan Galician Swedish Swiss Ukrainian Yugoslav

Middle Eastern	Afghan Arab Emirati Iraqi Jordanian Kuwaiti Lebanese Omani Palestinian Saudi Syrian Yemeni Assyrian Iranian Israeli Jewish Kurdish Turkish

North America	Native Americans Alaska Natives Amerindian Appalachian West Indian Bahamian Belizean Jamaican Haitian Trinidadian and Tobagonian Canadian French Canadian Hispanic and Latino Costa Rican Cuban Dominican Guatemalan Honduran Mexican (Indigenous Mexican) Nicaraguan Panamanian Puerto Rican Salvadoran

Oceania	Euro Oceanic the most of Australians and New Zealanders Pacific Islander Chamorro Fijian French Polynesian Maori Marshallese Micronesian Native Hawaiians Palauan Samoan Tongan

South America	Argentine Bolivian Brazilian Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Guyanese Paraguayan Peruvian Surinamese Uruguayan Venezuelan

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