Language Stats: compare key data on Gibraltar & 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.

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STAT	Gibraltar	Malaysia
English status	Yanito is spoken by most Gibraltarians among themselves. It is a dialect of <a href=/encyclopedia/England>English</a> with a strong <a href=/encyclopedia/Spain>Spanish</a> influence, with over 500 words coming from <a href=/encyclopedia/Genoa>Genoese</a> (Ligurian) and <a href=/encyclopedia/Hebrew-language>Hebrew</a>. Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989.	Bible 1535-1989.
Languages	English (used in schools and for official purposes), Spanish, Italian, Portuguese	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	0.498 Ranked 87th.	0.758 Ranked 38th. 52% more than Gibraltar

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