🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 → 🇵🇱

How easy is Polish for Welsh speakers?

Going from Welsh to Polish (Polski) has a composite linguistic distance of 67% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

67% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

39%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

14%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

Open the interactive comparison →

Other easy languages for Welsh speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Welsh:

🇮🇪

Irish

43% distance
🇮🇹

Sardinian

57% distance
🇪🇸

Spanish

58% distance
🇪🇸

Galician

58% distance
🇫🇷

Occitan

58% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

A quick 3-question check between Welsh and Polish. No signup.