The pie charts below show the number of native speakers of different languages in Canada in 1996, 2006, and 2016. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The pie graphs compare the information about the group of English, French, and non-official speakers in Canada over twenty years from 1996 to 2016.

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, it can be seen apparently that English still remained the most used language in Canada throughout the period, followed by French and Non-official users.

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the graph, English speakers accounted for 60% in the initial year,

then

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slightly decreased to 58% and 57%, in 2006 and 2016, respectively. Meanwhile, there was 23% of people who spoke French as their mother tongue and

then

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the number experienced a 1% decline in each decade until reaching 21%

at the end

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of the period.

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, Canadian residents who used other non-official languages comprised 23%, in 1996, before gradually going down by 2% in the following 10 years.

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, the figure increased to 22% in the next decade, which ranked second among languages spoken by Canadians in 2016.