More than 700 languages are spoken in New York City in addition to English—someone might hear Bengali in Kensington or Tibetan in Woodside. Most speakers of Chinese languages live in the neighborhood of Flushing in 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 northern China, whereas Cantonese and Fuzhounese are widely spoken in southern China. It can therefore be inferred that
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A
people who emigrate from northern China tend to settle in Flushing, while people who emigrate from southern China tend to settle in Chinatown.
B
Chinese immigrants who moved to New York City long ago are more likely to speak several Chinese languages than are more recent Chinese immigrants.
C
overall, there are more Cantonese and Fuzhounese speakers among Chinese immigrants in New York than there are Mandarin speakers.
D
Chinese immigrants regularly move between Queens and Manhattan after emigrating rather than remaining in one borough.