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Languages to learn if you speak Irish

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

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

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