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Languages to learn if you speak German

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

#1 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish

#2 🇳🇱 Dutch

#3 🇮🇱 Yiddish

#4 🇿🇦 Afrikaans

#5 🇬🇧 English

#6 🇮🇸 Icelandic

#7 🇫🇴 Faroese

#8 🇳🇴 Norwegian

#9 🇸🇪 Swedish

#10 🇩🇰 Danish

#11 🇫🇷 French

#12 🇪🇸 Spanish

#13 🇷🇴 Romanian

#14 🇦🇱 Albanian

#15 🇵🇹 Portuguese

#16 🇪🇸 Galician

#17 🇮🇹 Italian

#18 🏴 Catalan

#19 🇫🇷 Occitan

#20 🇮🇹 Sicilian

#21 🇮🇹 Sardinian

#22 🇨🇿 Czech

#23 🇸🇰 Slovak

#24 🇸🇮 Slovenian

#25 🇮🇪 Irish

#26 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole

#27 🇱🇻 Latvian

#28 🇱🇹 Lithuanian

#29 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh

#30 🇵🇱 Polish

#31 🏳️ Kurdish

#32 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian

#33 🇬🇷 Greek

#34 🇲🇹 Maltese

#35 🇷🇺 Russian

#36 🇦🇫 Pashto

#37 🇮🇳 Gujarati

#38 🇺🇦 Ukrainian

#39 🇧🇾 Belarusian

#40 🇧🇬 Bulgarian

#41 🇲🇰 Macedonian

#42 🇮🇳 Hindi

#43 🇵🇰 Urdu

#44 🇮🇳 Punjabi

#45 🇳🇵 Nepali

#46 🇦🇲 Armenian

#47 🇱🇰 Sinhala

#48 🇸🇴 Somali

#49 🇮🇳 Marathi

#50 🇳🇬 Hausa

#51 🇵🇭 Tagalog

#52 🇧🇩 Bengali

#53 🇭🇺 Hungarian

#54 🇻🇳 Vietnamese

#55 🇮🇩 Indonesian

#56 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)

#57 🇹🇯 Tajik

#58 🇰🇪 Swahili

#59 🇿🇦 Zulu

#60 🇵🇾 Guarani

#61 🇳🇴 Northern Sami

#62 🇮🇱 Hebrew

#63 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA)

#64 🇳🇬 Yoruba

#65 🇹🇲 Turkmen

#66 🇪🇹 Amharic

#67 🇵🇪 Quechua

#68 🏳️ Basque

#69 🇪🇪 Estonian

#70 🇹🇷 Turkish

#71 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani

#72 🇺🇿 Uzbek

#73 🇪🇷 Tigrinya

#74 🇲🇾 Malay

#75 🇮🇩 Javanese

#76 🇮🇳 Tamil

#77 🇮🇳 Malayalam

#78 🇰🇭 Khmer

#79 🇹🇭 Thai

#80 🇫🇮 Finnish

#81 🇮🇳 Kannada

#82 🇮🇳 Telugu

#83 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese

#84 🇭🇰 Cantonese

#85 🇱🇦 Lao

#86 🇨🇳 Tibetan

#87 🇰🇿 Kazakh

#88 🇬🇪 Georgian

#89 🇯🇵 Japanese

#90 🇰🇷 Korean

#91 🇲🇲 Burmese

#92 🇨🇳 Uyghur

#93 🇲🇳 Mongolian

#94 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz

#95 🇷🇺 Tatar

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