Over 600 languages are spoken in New York City, in addition to English-one can find Buginese spoken in the neighborhood of Elmhurst, or Ilocano in Woodside. Most speakers of Chinese languages reside in the neighborhood of Flushing (part of New York City’s borough of Queens), where the dominant Chinese language is Mandarin, and in Chinatown, in the borough of Manhattan, where the dominant Chinese languages are Cantonese and Fuzhounese. Mandarin is widely spoken in north China, while Cantonese and Fuzhounese are widely spoken in south China. It can therefore be inferred that __________.
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A
taken together, there are more Cantonese and Fuzhounese speakers among Chinese immigrants in New York than there are Mandarin speakers.
B
people who emigrate from north China tend to settle in Flushing, while people who emigrate from south China tend to settle in Chinatown.
C
Chinese immigrants who emigrated to New York City many years ago are more likely to speak several Chinese languages than are more recent Chinese immigrants.
D
Chinese immigrants regularly change their residences between Queens and Manhattan after they emigrate, rather than staying in one borough.