The line graph illustrates the data about the figure of residents in Australia who use Chinese, Arabic, Italian and Greek as their mother tongue from 1986 to 2011.
Overall, there was an increase in the number of people using Chinese and Arabic as their first language, while Italian and Greek speakers witnessed a decline. In addition, Chinese and Arabic speakers generally had highest throughout the period.
The total of people who speak Chinese started at 100,000 , after which it experienced a sharply rise to over 200,000 in 10 years later and end up at 350,000 in 2011. Similarly, the count for Arabic was at 50,000 , followed by a gradual increase to 100,000 in 2011.
Meanwhile, there was a steady fall in the quantity of Greek language users from 225,000 at the first time to just under 200,000 in 2011. In the same way, the year 1986 recorded 150,000 Italian native speakers but after that, the figure went down to about 100,000 at the end of the period.