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Language Stats: compare key data on Cayman Islands & Malaysia

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  • 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.
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STAT Cayman Islands Malaysia HISTORY
English status National <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989. Bible 1535-1989.
Languages English 95%, Spanish 3.2%, other 1.8% 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 0.547
Ranked 79th. 		0.758
Ranked 38th. 39% more than Cayman Islands

SOURCES: Ethnologue; CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Wikipedia: Linguistic diversity index (Rankings by country) (UNESCO World Report – Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue)

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