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Languages to learn if you speak Japanese

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

#1 🇰🇷 Korean

#2 🇵🇪 Quechua

#3 🇳🇴 Northern Sami

#4 🇬🇪 Georgian

#5 🇮🇳 Tamil

#6 🇮🇳 Malayalam

#7 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese

#8 🇮🇳 Marathi

#9 🇺🇿 Uzbek

#10 🇲🇳 Mongolian

#11 🇮🇳 Telugu

#12 🇮🇳 Kannada

#13 🇨🇳 Tibetan

#14 🏳️ Basque

#15 🇧🇩 Bengali

#16 🇫🇮 Finnish

#17 🇲🇲 Burmese

#18 🇱🇻 Latvian

#19 🇪🇪 Estonian

#20 🇹🇲 Turkmen

#21 🇭🇰 Cantonese

#22 🇦🇲 Armenian

#23 🇱🇹 Lithuanian

#24 🇳🇵 Nepali

#25 🇱🇰 Sinhala

#26 🇰🇿 Kazakh

#27 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz

#28 🇰🇪 Swahili

#29 🇿🇦 Zulu

#30 🇵🇾 Guarani

#31 🇦🇫 Pashto

#32 🇹🇷 Turkish

#33 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani

#34 🇷🇺 Tatar

#35 🇨🇳 Uyghur

#36 🇰🇭 Khmer

#37 🇹🇭 Thai

#38 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian

#39 🇮🇳 Hindi

#40 🇵🇰 Urdu

#41 🇮🇳 Punjabi

#42 🇵🇭 Tagalog

#43 🇨🇿 Czech

#44 🇸🇰 Slovak

#45 🇸🇮 Slovenian

#46 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)

#47 🇹🇯 Tajik

#48 🇮🇳 Gujarati

#49 🇻🇳 Vietnamese

#50 🇱🇦 Lao

#51 🇮🇩 Indonesian

#52 🇲🇾 Malay

#53 🇮🇩 Javanese

#54 🇬🇧 English

#55 🇳🇴 Norwegian

#56 🇺🇦 Ukrainian

#57 🇧🇾 Belarusian

#58 🇵🇱 Polish

#59 🇿🇦 Afrikaans

#60 🇸🇪 Swedish

#61 🇷🇺 Russian

#62 🏳️ Kurdish

#63 🇭🇺 Hungarian

#64 🇪🇹 Amharic

#65 🇪🇷 Tigrinya

#66 🇩🇰 Danish

#67 🇫🇴 Faroese

#68 🇮🇹 Sardinian

#69 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole

#70 🇩🇪 German

#71 🇳🇱 Dutch

#72 🇮🇸 Icelandic

#73 🇮🇹 Italian

#74 🇮🇹 Sicilian

#75 🇮🇪 Irish

#76 🇲🇹 Maltese

#77 🇸🇴 Somali

#78 🇳🇬 Yoruba

#79 🇬🇷 Greek

#80 🇦🇱 Albanian

#81 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA)

#82 🇮🇱 Yiddish

#83 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish

#84 🇪🇸 Spanish

#85 🇵🇹 Portuguese

#86 🇪🇸 Galician

#87 🇫🇷 French

#88 🇷🇴 Romanian

#89 🏴 Catalan

#90 🇫🇷 Occitan

#91 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh

#92 🇮🇱 Hebrew

#93 🇳🇬 Hausa

#94 🇧🇬 Bulgarian

#95 🇲🇰 Macedonian

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