id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8568 Chinese language and varieties in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 1901 438 71 In New York City, although Standard Mandarin Chinese is spoken as a native language among only ten percent of Chinese speakers, it is used as a secondary dialect and is replacing Cantonese as their lingua franca.[12] In addition, immigration from Fujian, particularly Fuzhou is bringing an increasingly large number of Eastern Min speakers. Although Chinese Americans grow up learning English, some teach their children Chinese for a variety of reasons including preservation of an ancient civilization, preservation of a unique identity, pride in their cultural ancestry, desire for easy communication with them and other relatives, and the perception that Chinese will be a useful language as China's economic strength increases. Cantonese, historically the language of most Chinese immigrants, was the third most widely spoken non-English language in the United States in 2004.[6][page needed] Many Chinese schools have been established to accomplish these goals. "2010 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates: Language spoken at home by ability to speak English for the population 5 years and over". North-Central American / Upper Midwestern English ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8568.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8568.txt