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Languages to learn if you speak Afrikaans

All 95 candidate languages ranked from linguistically closest to most distant for native or fluent Afrikaans speakers.

#1 🇳🇱 Dutch
9% distance
#2 🇬🇧 English
27% distance
#3 🇩🇪 German
32% distance
#4 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish
33% distance
#5 🇮🇱 Yiddish
40% distance
#6 🇩🇰 Danish
44% distance
#7 🇸🇪 Swedish
45% distance
#8 🇳🇴 Norwegian
46% distance
#9 🇮🇸 Icelandic
50% distance
#10 🇫🇴 Faroese
50% distance
#11 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole
55% distance
#12 🇪🇸 Spanish
59% distance
#13 🇵🇹 Portuguese
60% distance
#14 🇪🇸 Galician
60% distance
#15 🇫🇷 French
60% distance
#16 🇮🇹 Italian
60% distance
#17 🏴 Catalan
60% distance
#18 🇫🇷 Occitan
60% distance
#19 🇮🇹 Sicilian
60% distance
#20 🇮🇹 Sardinian
60% distance
#21 🇷🇴 Romanian
65% distance
#22 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh
65% distance
#23 🇦🇱 Albanian
67% distance
#24 🇹🇯 Tajik
67% distance
#25 🇮🇪 Irish
68% distance
#26 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)
68% distance
#27 🇱🇻 Latvian
69% distance
#28 🇱🇹 Lithuanian
69% distance
#29 🇻🇳 Vietnamese
69% distance
#30 🇨🇿 Czech
70% distance
#31 🇸🇰 Slovak
70% distance
#32 🏳️ Kurdish
70% distance
#33 🇸🇮 Slovenian
71% distance
#34 🇲🇹 Maltese
71% distance
#35 🇮🇩 Indonesian
71% distance
#36 🇵🇱 Polish
72% distance
#37 🇧🇬 Bulgarian
72% distance
#38 🇲🇰 Macedonian
72% distance
#39 🇰🇪 Swahili
73% distance
#40 🇿🇦 Zulu
73% distance
#41 🇳🇬 Yoruba
73% distance
#42 🇵🇾 Guarani
73% distance
#43 🇵🇭 Tagalog
74% distance
#44 🇬🇷 Greek
75% distance
#45 🇦🇲 Armenian
76% distance
#46 🇧🇩 Bengali
76% distance
#47 🇦🇫 Pashto
77% distance
#48 🇰🇭 Khmer
77% distance
#49 🇹🇭 Thai
77% distance
#50 🇲🇾 Malay
77% distance
#51 🇮🇩 Javanese
77% distance
#52 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian
78% distance
#53 🇮🇳 Hindi
78% distance
#54 🇵🇰 Urdu
78% distance
#55 🇮🇳 Punjabi
78% distance
#56 🇳🇴 Northern Sami
78% distance
#57 🇮🇳 Gujarati
79% distance
#58 🇱🇰 Sinhala
79% distance
#59 🇭🇺 Hungarian
79% distance
#60 🇳🇬 Hausa
79% distance
#61 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese
79% distance
#62 🇭🇰 Cantonese
79% distance
#63 🇱🇦 Lao
79% distance
#64 🏳️ Basque
79% distance
#65 🇷🇺 Russian
80% distance
#66 🇳🇵 Nepali
80% distance
#67 🇪🇪 Estonian
80% distance
#68 🇹🇲 Turkmen
80% distance
#69 🇵🇪 Quechua
80% distance
#70 🇺🇦 Ukrainian
82% distance
#71 🇧🇾 Belarusian
82% distance
#72 🇫🇮 Finnish
82% distance
#73 🇹🇷 Turkish
82% distance
#74 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani
82% distance
#75 🇺🇿 Uzbek
82% distance
#76 🇸🇴 Somali
82% distance
#77 🇮🇱 Hebrew
83% distance
#78 🇮🇳 Marathi
84% distance
#79 🇲🇲 Burmese
84% distance
#80 🇪🇷 Tigrinya
86% distance
#81 🇰🇿 Kazakh
87% distance
#82 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA)
87% distance
#83 🇪🇹 Amharic
87% distance
#84 🇨🇳 Tibetan
87% distance
#85 🇨🇳 Uyghur
88% distance
#86 🇯🇵 Japanese
88% distance
#87 🇬🇪 Georgian
89% distance
#88 🇰🇷 Korean
89% distance
#89 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz
91% distance
#90 🇲🇳 Mongolian
91% distance
#91 🇮🇳 Malayalam
91% distance
#92 🇷🇺 Tatar
92% distance
#93 🇮🇳 Tamil
92% distance
#94 🇮🇳 Kannada
93% distance
#95 🇮🇳 Telugu
94% distance

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