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Languages to learn if you speak Dutch

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

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

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