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Languages to learn if you speak French

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

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

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