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How easy is Welsh for Danish speakers?

Going from Danish to Welsh (Cymraeg) has a composite linguistic distance of 64% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

64% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

58%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Danish speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Danish:

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Norwegian

12% distance
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Swedish

13% distance
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Faroese

29% distance
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Dutch

34% distance
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Icelandic

35% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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