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English status Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989. <a href=/graph-T/peo_eth_gro>Ethnic groups</a> which use <a href=/encyclopedia/England>English</a>: <a href=/country/mc>Chinese</a> 154,000, 68%; <a href=/region/EUR>European</a> and Eurasian 34,000, 15%; <a href=/country/in>Indian</a> 32,000, 14%; <a href=/encyclopedia/Malay-language>Malay</a> 6,000, 3%. <a href=/country/mc>Chinese</a> varieties and <a href=/encyclopedia/Tamil-language>Tamil</a> also used at home. National <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1382-1989.
Languages Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%; <i>note:</i> English enjoys associate status but is the most important language for national, political, and commercial communication; Hindi is the national language and primary tongue of 41% of the people; there are 14 other official languages: Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi, and Sanskrit; Hindustani is a popular variant of Hindi/Urdu spoken widely throughout northern India but is not an official language Mandarin 35%, English 23%, Malay 14.1%, Hokkien 11.4%, Cantonese 5.7%, Teochew 4.9%, Tamil 3.2%, other Chinese dialects 1.8%, other 0.9%
Linguistic diversity index 0.93
Ranked 9th. 24% more than Singapore 		0.748
Ranked 41st.
Major language(s) Hindi, English and more than 20 other official languages English, Malay, Mandarin, Tamil

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); British Broadcasting Corporation 2014

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