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Languages to learn if you speak Italian

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

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

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