NEW SQUARE, N.Y. — The very name of the village is a linguistic anomaly: New Square. Sounds as plain English as you can get, except that it was supposed to be called New Skvir after a Ukrainian town and was inadvertently Anglicized years ago as a result of a clerical error. (It is not shaped like a square, either.)

But the village’s nondescript identity masks a distinct linguistic niche — New Square, a largely Hasidic community that is part of the Town of Ramapo in Rockland County, has a larger proportion of homes where residents speak a language other than English than any other community in the Northeast with a population of 5,000 or higher.

Nearly 93 percent of the 7,000 or so residents speak Yiddish at home, according to statistics released on Tuesday by the Census Bureau, which were based on the 2007-11 American Community Survey.

Another Hasidic community, Kiryas Joel, in Orange County, ranks second in the Northeast in non-English speakers at home, followed by six New Jersey cities and towns — Union City, West New York, Harrison, Dover and Guttenberg — where the predominant language spoken at home is Spanish, and one — Palisades Park — where the predominant language is Korean.