other languages are spoken by descendants of immigrants, who are usually bilingual, in small rural communities in southern brazil. the most important are the brazilian german dialects, such as riograndenser hunsrückisch and the east pomeranian dialect, and also the talian, based on the italian venetian language. there are also bilingual speakers of polish, ukrainian and russian in southern brazil, especially paraná. in the city of são paulo, levantine arabic, japanese, chinese and korean can be heard in the immigrant neighborhoods, such as liberdade. yiddish and hebrew are used by jewish communities mainly in são paulo, rio de janeiro, porto alegre, curitiba, brasília, belo horizonte and recife as well as the vlax romani dialect by gypsy communities all across the nation.