The graph shows information about people in Australia who usefour languages as their mother-tongue . In general, Greek and Chinese languages were the most usable languages in Australia, with Chinese leading the pack. While Arabic and Italian were not as usable languages among people who live in Australia as Chinese and Greek. Notably, Greek and Italian languages saw a steady decrease.
In 1986, there were 100,000 people who used Chinese as their first language , after a decade the number of people significantly rose to approximately 200,000 and continued to rise and reaching 350,000 in 2011. The figure for Arabic linguistic, also experienced a steady rise , but comparing with Chinese language , Arabic wasn’t as usable as Chinese. It is initial level was 100,000 and then started to grow steadily , achieving 150,000 people using it in 2011.
In contrast, Italian and Greek languages didn’t experience any growth , instead they went down. From 1986 to 2011 the number of people who used Greek language as their mother tongue was consistently declining, it is original number was around 250,000 and decreased to 190,000 in 2011. As for Italian language, in 1986 the amount of people speaking in it was 150,000 , after some years it doesn’t changed largely , though the number was 100,000 which was the same till 2011.