Language Stats: compare key data on Brunei & Malaysia

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	Brunei	Malaysia
English status	<a href=/cat/Government>Government</a>, <a href=/cat/Education>education</a>. Used increasingly by educated speakers as first or second <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. National <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. <a href=/graph-T/med_new>Newspapers</a>, <a href=/encyclopedia/Television>TV</a>. Bible 1535-1989.	Bible 1535-1989.
Languages	Malay (official), English, Chinese	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	0.456 Ranked 96th.	0.758 Ranked 38th. 66% more than Brunei
Major language(s)	Malay, English, Chinese	Malay (official), English, Chinese dialects, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam

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