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Languages to learn if you speak Malay

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

#1 🇮🇩 Indonesian

#2 🇮🇩 Javanese

#3 🇵🇭 Tagalog

#4 🇰🇪 Swahili

#5 🇵🇾 Guarani

#6 🇳🇬 Hausa

#7 🇿🇦 Zulu

#8 🇬🇧 English

#9 🇻🇳 Vietnamese

#10 🇪🇸 Spanish

#11 🇪🇸 Galician

#12 🇫🇷 Occitan

#13 🇮🇹 Sicilian

#14 🇮🇹 Sardinian

#15 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole

#16 🇮🇱 Hebrew

#17 🇿🇦 Afrikaans

#18 🏳️ Kurdish

#19 🇺🇿 Uzbek

#20 🇲🇹 Maltese

#21 🏳️ Basque

#22 🇵🇹 Portuguese

#23 🇫🇷 French

#24 🇮🇹 Italian

#25 🏴 Catalan

#26 🇪🇪 Estonian

#27 🇳🇴 Northern Sami

#28 🇵🇪 Quechua

#29 🇳🇱 Dutch

#30 🇸🇪 Swedish

#31 🇩🇰 Danish

#32 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)

#33 🇧🇩 Bengali

#34 🇲🇰 Macedonian

#35 🇦🇱 Albanian

#36 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh

#37 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese

#38 🇭🇰 Cantonese

#39 🇰🇭 Khmer

#40 🇹🇭 Thai

#41 🇱🇦 Lao

#42 🇳🇴 Norwegian

#43 🇷🇴 Romanian

#44 🇧🇬 Bulgarian

#45 🇹🇯 Tajik

#46 🇭🇺 Hungarian

#47 🇳🇬 Yoruba

#48 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish

#49 🇸🇰 Slovak

#50 🇱🇻 Latvian

#51 🇱🇹 Lithuanian

#52 🇫🇮 Finnish

#53 🇹🇷 Turkish

#54 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani

#55 🇹🇲 Turkmen

#56 🇲🇲 Burmese

#57 🇨🇳 Tibetan

#58 🇩🇪 German

#59 🇮🇸 Icelandic

#60 🇫🇴 Faroese

#61 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian

#62 🇸🇮 Slovenian

#63 🇰🇿 Kazakh

#64 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA)

#65 🇵🇱 Polish

#66 🇨🇿 Czech

#67 🇮🇪 Irish

#68 🇪🇷 Tigrinya

#69 🇬🇪 Georgian

#70 🇰🇷 Korean

#71 🇬🇷 Greek

#72 🇦🇲 Armenian

#73 🇱🇰 Sinhala

#74 🇪🇹 Amharic

#75 🇯🇵 Japanese

#76 🇮🇱 Yiddish

#77 🇷🇺 Russian

#78 🇧🇾 Belarusian

#79 🇮🇳 Hindi

#80 🇵🇰 Urdu

#81 🇮🇳 Punjabi

#82 🇮🇳 Marathi

#83 🇷🇺 Tatar

#84 🇨🇳 Uyghur

#85 🇸🇴 Somali

#86 🇺🇦 Ukrainian

#87 🇦🇫 Pashto

#88 🇮🇳 Gujarati

#89 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz

#90 🇳🇵 Nepali

#91 🇲🇳 Mongolian

#92 🇮🇳 Kannada

#93 🇮🇳 Malayalam

#94 🇮🇳 Tamil

#95 🇮🇳 Telugu

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