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Languages to learn if you speak Lao

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

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

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