Language Stats: compare key data on Belize & Malaysia

Languages: A rank ordering of languages starting with the largest and sometimes includes the percent of total population speaking that language.
Linguistic diversity index: LDI.
Major language(s): Country major languages.

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STAT	Belize	Malaysia
English status	Used in <a href=/cat/Education>education</a>, <a href=/cat/Government>government</a>, and business. National <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989.	Bible 1535-1989.
Languages	Spanish 46%, Creole 32.9%, Mayan dialects 8.9%, English 3.9% (official), Garifuna 3.4% (Carib), German 3.3%, other 1.4%, unknown 0.2%	Bahasa Malaysia (official), English, Chinese (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai; <i>note:</i> in East Malaysia there are several indigenous languages; most widely spoken are Iban and Kadazan
Linguistic diversity index	0.693 Ranked 50th.	0.758 Ranked 38th. 9% more than Belize
Major language(s)	English (official), Spanish, Belizean Creole, Mayan, Garifuna (Carib)	Malay (official), English, Chinese dialects, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam

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