Language Stats: compare key data on India & Liberia

SHARE TWEET EMBED

Select year 1989 2001 2003 2008 2009 2013

•  

STAT	India	Liberia	HISTORY
English status	Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989.	Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989.
Languages	Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%; <i>note:</i> English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 41% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language	English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence
Linguistic diversity index	0.93 Ranked 9th. 2% more than Liberia	0.912 Ranked 13th.
Major language(s)	Hindi, English and more than 20 other official languages	English, 29 African languages belonging to the Mande, Kwa or Mel linguistic groups

15 30 60 All

APA MLA MHRA CSE AMA Chicago Bluebook Bluebook/JOLT Citation