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Languages to learn if you speak Arabic (MSA)

All 95 candidate languages ranked from linguistically closest to most distant for native or fluent Arabic (MSA) speakers.

#1 🇲🇹 Maltese
39% distance
#2 🇮🇱 Hebrew
51% distance
#3 🇪🇷 Tigrinya
56% distance
#4 🇪🇹 Amharic
60% distance
#5 🇵🇰 Urdu
65% distance
#6 🇦🇫 Pashto
69% distance
#7 🇳🇬 Hausa
69% distance
#8 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)
70% distance
#9 🇸🇴 Somali
70% distance
#10 🏳️ Kurdish
73% distance
#11 🇮🇪 Irish
74% distance
#12 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh
74% distance
#13 🇮🇳 Punjabi
77% distance
#14 🇪🇸 Spanish
79% distance
#15 🇮🇹 Sardinian
80% distance
#16 🇵🇭 Tagalog
80% distance
#17 🇪🇸 Galician
81% distance
#18 🇫🇷 Occitan
81% distance
#19 🇮🇹 Sicilian
81% distance
#20 🇬🇷 Greek
81% distance
#21 🇦🇲 Armenian
81% distance
#22 🇮🇳 Hindi
81% distance
#23 🇩🇪 German
82% distance
#24 🇮🇱 Yiddish
82% distance
#25 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish
82% distance
#26 🇮🇸 Icelandic
82% distance
#27 🇫🇴 Faroese
82% distance
#28 🇵🇹 Portuguese
82% distance
#29 🇫🇷 French
82% distance
#30 🇮🇹 Italian
82% distance
#31 🇷🇴 Romanian
82% distance
#32 🏴 Catalan
82% distance
#33 🇦🇱 Albanian
82% distance
#34 🇱🇻 Latvian
82% distance
#35 🇱🇹 Lithuanian
82% distance
#36 🇮🇳 Gujarati
82% distance
#37 🇳🇵 Nepali
82% distance
#38 🇨🇳 Uyghur
82% distance
#39 🇷🇺 Russian
83% distance
#40 🇧🇾 Belarusian
83% distance
#41 🇸🇰 Slovak
83% distance
#42 🇸🇮 Slovenian
83% distance
#43 🇺🇦 Ukrainian
84% distance
#44 🇨🇿 Czech
84% distance
#45 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian
84% distance
#46 🇮🇩 Indonesian
84% distance
#47 🇲🇾 Malay
84% distance
#48 🇰🇪 Swahili
84% distance
#49 🇱🇰 Sinhala
85% distance
#50 🇳🇱 Dutch
86% distance
#51 🇸🇪 Swedish
86% distance
#52 🇩🇰 Danish
86% distance
#53 🇧🇬 Bulgarian
86% distance
#54 🇲🇰 Macedonian
86% distance
#55 🇹🇯 Tajik
86% distance
#56 🇧🇩 Bengali
86% distance
#57 🇺🇿 Uzbek
86% distance
#58 🇬🇧 English
87% distance
#59 🇿🇦 Afrikaans
87% distance
#60 🇳🇴 Norwegian
87% distance
#61 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole
87% distance
#62 🇵🇱 Polish
87% distance
#63 🇻🇳 Vietnamese
87% distance
#64 🇮🇩 Javanese
87% distance
#65 🇮🇳 Marathi
88% distance
#66 🇨🇳 Tibetan
88% distance
#67 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani
89% distance
#68 🇮🇳 Kannada
89% distance
#69 🇮🇳 Malayalam
89% distance
#70 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese
89% distance
#71 🇭🇰 Cantonese
89% distance
#72 🇰🇭 Khmer
89% distance
#73 🇹🇭 Thai
89% distance
#74 🇱🇦 Lao
89% distance
#75 🇵🇾 Guarani
89% distance
#76 🇹🇷 Turkish
90% distance
#77 🇬🇪 Georgian
90% distance
#78 🇮🇳 Tamil
90% distance
#79 🇮🇳 Telugu
90% distance
#80 🇲🇲 Burmese
90% distance
#81 🇰🇷 Korean
90% distance
#82 🇿🇦 Zulu
90% distance
#83 🏳️ Basque
90% distance
#84 🇳🇴 Northern Sami
91% distance
#85 🇵🇪 Quechua
91% distance
#86 🇰🇿 Kazakh
92% distance
#87 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz
92% distance
#88 🇯🇵 Japanese
92% distance
#89 🇪🇪 Estonian
93% distance
#90 🇹🇲 Turkmen
93% distance
#91 🇷🇺 Tatar
93% distance
#92 🇳🇬 Yoruba
93% distance
#93 🇲🇳 Mongolian
94% distance
#94 🇭🇺 Hungarian
95% distance
#95 🇫🇮 Finnish
97% distance

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