Language Stats: compare key data on Burundi & Mauritius

French status: Status of French language in selected countries. Additional information for Mauritius provided by the Ministry of Tourism website of the Republic of Mauritius
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	Burundi	Mauritius
French status	Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1530-1986.	One of two official languages (the other being English). Used widely and considered more popular than English. The elderly tend to use creole. <a href=/graph-T/med_new>Newspapers</a>, radio programs, <a href=/encyclopedia/Television>TV</a>. Bible 1530-1986.French Creole(A French patois ,French derived) used as well.
Languages	Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)	Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3%
Linguistic diversity index	0.004 Ranked 194th.	0.641 Ranked 61st. 160 times more than Burundi
Major language(s)	Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili	English (official), Creole, French, Indian languages

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