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Languages to learn if you speak Malayalam

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

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

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