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Languages to learn if you speak Icelandic

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

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

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