The graph shows information about the number of people in Australian who use Chinese, Arabic, Italian, and Greek as their first language.

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, and

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as their

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.

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, the figures

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Chinese and Arabic

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climbed to

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degrees, with the former

witnessed

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a nearly

quadruple

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growth,

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the

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of people speaking the other two languages experienced a steady drop. It is noticeable that Chinese overtook

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from 1996 onwards, and

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the most commonly spoken

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out of the four. Looking

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at

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and Arabic,

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beginning with the third place, with north of 100000

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in 1986.

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figure surpassed

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and

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in 1996 and continued to jump considerably, reaching 350000

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of the timescale, A

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similarly

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pattern,

albert

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less pronounced was observed in the latter. The initial figure was only the lowest in

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at 50000

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, but after a quarter of a century, the

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of Arabic

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tripled to 150000

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, securing

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third

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place by the end of the period. Turning to

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and

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, the former

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was the commonly spoken

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, with about 230000

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in 1986. Thence, the number of

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speakers

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fell marginal to just under 200000 by 2011, which

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the second most spoken

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. The latter

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drop from 150000 to approximately 100000 over the

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span.

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of the period,

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was the least preferred

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.