The pie charts below show the number of native speakers of different languages in canada 1996, 2006 and 2016. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
The three graphs illustrate the proportion of people who spoke English, French, and non-official languages in the nation of Canada across 3 different years; 1996, 2006 and 2016.
Overall
, English continued to be the most spoken language across the entire period, despite declining slightly each year. Non-official languages, on the other hand
, experienced a moderate increase in usage by 2016.
In 1996, English was spoken by three-fifth
of the population with a drop of only 3% by 2016. A similar downward trend was followed by the second most spoken language in 1996, French, accounting for just over a fifth of the Fix the agreement mistake
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declined by 1% in 2006 and by another 1% in 2016, contributing the least by the end of the period.
In contrast
, Non-official languages rose gradually over the years, starting with just under a fifth in 1996 to exactly 20% by 2006. This
upward trend followed till 2016, thereby exceeding French by 1%.Submitted by man3meet4 on
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