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Over 600 languages are spoken in New York City in addition to English-one can find Aromanian spoken in the neighborhood of Ridgewood, or Hindi in Gramercy Park. Many immigrants from north China, where Mandarin is the primary language, reside in the neighborhood of Flushing (part of New York City's borough of Queens) while those who emigrated from south China, where many people speak Cantonese or Fuzhounese as a first language, tend to reside in Chinatown, in the borough of Manhattan. Among speakers of Chinese languages, those in Flushing tend to speak Mandarin as their primary language while those in Chinatown tend to speak Cantonese or Fuzhounese as their primary language. This is most likely because