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STAT	India	Namibia	HISTORY
English status	Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989.	Not understood or spoken by everyone. 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 7% (official), Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages 1% (includes Oshivambo, Herero, Nama)
Linguistic diversity index	0.93 Ranked 9th. 15% more than Namibia	0.808 Ranked 28th.
Major language(s)	Hindi, English and more than 20 other official languages	English (official), Afrikaans, German, Oshivambo, Herero, Nama

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