Language Stats: compare key data on Malaysia & Tanzania

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STAT	Malaysia	Tanzania	HISTORY
English status	Bible 1535-1989.	Used by some <a href=/region/ASI>Asian</a> residents as mother tongue. Taught in secondary school and university. 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	Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguja (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages; <i>note:</i> Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages
Languages > Note	in East Malaysia there are several indigenous languages; most widely spoken are Iban and Kadazan	Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources including Arabic and English; it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages
Linguistic diversity index	0.758 Ranked 38th.	0.965 Ranked 4th. 27% more than Malaysia
Major language(s)	Malay (official), English, Chinese dialects, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam	English, Swahili

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