Language Stats: compare key data on Malaysia & Swaziland

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	Malaysia	Swaziland
English status	Bible 1535-1989.	Taught in all <a href=/cat/Government>government</a> and private schools. National <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989.
Languages	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	English (official, government business conducted in English), siSwati (official)
Linguistic diversity index	0.758 Ranked 38th. 3 times more than Swaziland	0.228 Ranked 132nd.
Major language(s)	Malay (official), English, Chinese dialects, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam	Swazi, English (both official)

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