Language Stats: compare key data on Canada & India

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	Canada	India
English status	National <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1382-1989.	Official <a href=/cat/Language>language</a>. Bible 1535-1989.
Languages	English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%	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
Linguistic diversity index	0.549 Ranked 77th.	0.93 Ranked 9th. 69% more than Canada
Major language(s)	English, French (both official)	Hindi, English and more than 20 other official languages

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