Language Stats: compare key data on Malaysia & Solomon Islands

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	Solomon Islands
English status	Bible 1535-1989.	National <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1382-1989.
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	Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official; but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages
Linguistic diversity index	0.758 Ranked 38th.	0.965 Ranked 3rd. 27% more than Malaysia
Major language(s)	Malay (official), English, Chinese dialects, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam	English (official), Melanesian dialects

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