Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines, Arabic, and Urdu, the national language of Pakistan as well as recognized as an official language in India, are among the quickest developing languages in Canada, as indicated by Statistics Canada. Contrasted with 2006, the number of Canadian evaluation respondents guaranteeing Tagalog as their first language grew by 83.1% to 431,385; the number of Arabic speakers grew by 60.5% to 419,890, and the number of Urdu speakers grew by 44.6% to 210,820. Different languages that recorded double digit increases include Punjabi (36.5%), Spanish (32.9%), and Chinese (23.8%). Their total number of speakers rose to 1.25 million out of 2016. Two European languages, meanwhile, recorded double digit decline. Study respondents who claim Italian and German as their respective mother tongue dropped 17.4% and 14.8% respectively.