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Languages to learn if you speak Norwegian

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

#1 🇸🇪 Swedish
9% distance
#2 🇩🇰 Danish
12% distance
#3 🇫🇴 Faroese
31% distance
#4 🇮🇸 Icelandic
32% distance
#5 🇳🇱 Dutch
36% distance
#6 🇩🇪 German
39% distance
#7 🇬🇧 English
44% distance
#8 🇿🇦 Afrikaans
46% distance
#9 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish
48% distance
#10 🇮🇱 Yiddish
58% distance
#11 🇷🇴 Romanian
60% distance
#12 🇪🇸 Spanish
62% distance
#13 🇵🇹 Portuguese
62% distance
#14 🇪🇸 Galician
62% distance
#15 🇫🇷 French
62% distance
#16 🇮🇹 Italian
62% distance
#17 🏴 Catalan
62% distance
#18 🇫🇷 Occitan
62% distance
#19 🇮🇹 Sicilian
62% distance
#20 🇮🇹 Sardinian
62% distance
#21 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole
62% distance
#22 🇦🇱 Albanian
62% distance
#23 🇱🇻 Latvian
64% distance
#24 🇱🇹 Lithuanian
65% distance
#25 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh
65% distance
#26 🇸🇰 Slovak
66% distance
#27 🇸🇮 Slovenian
66% distance
#28 🇨🇿 Czech
67% distance
#29 🇧🇬 Bulgarian
67% distance
#30 🇲🇰 Macedonian
67% distance
#31 🇮🇪 Irish
67% distance
#32 🏳️ Kurdish
70% distance
#33 🇵🇱 Polish
72% distance
#34 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian
72% distance
#35 🇲🇹 Maltese
73% distance
#36 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)
74% distance
#37 🇹🇯 Tajik
74% distance
#38 🇻🇳 Vietnamese
74% distance
#39 🇬🇷 Greek
76% distance
#40 🇮🇳 Gujarati
76% distance
#41 🇮🇩 Indonesian
76% distance
#42 🇰🇪 Swahili
77% distance
#43 🇿🇦 Zulu
77% distance
#44 🇵🇾 Guarani
77% distance
#45 🇷🇺 Russian
78% distance
#46 🇮🇳 Hindi
78% distance
#47 🇵🇰 Urdu
78% distance
#48 🇧🇩 Bengali
78% distance
#49 🇮🇳 Punjabi
78% distance
#50 🇱🇰 Sinhala
78% distance
#51 🇳🇴 Northern Sami
78% distance
#52 🇳🇬 Yoruba
78% distance
#53 🇺🇦 Ukrainian
79% distance
#54 🇧🇾 Belarusian
79% distance
#55 🇦🇫 Pashto
79% distance
#56 🇮🇳 Marathi
79% distance
#57 🇳🇬 Hausa
79% distance
#58 🇦🇲 Armenian
80% distance
#59 🇳🇵 Nepali
80% distance
#60 🇵🇭 Tagalog
80% distance
#61 🇰🇭 Khmer
81% distance
#62 🇹🇭 Thai
81% distance
#63 🏳️ Basque
81% distance
#64 🇸🇴 Somali
82% distance
#65 🇲🇾 Malay
82% distance
#66 🇮🇩 Javanese
82% distance
#67 🇮🇱 Hebrew
83% distance
#68 🇪🇪 Estonian
84% distance
#69 🇭🇺 Hungarian
84% distance
#70 🇹🇲 Turkmen
84% distance
#71 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese
84% distance
#72 🇭🇰 Cantonese
84% distance
#73 🇱🇦 Lao
84% distance
#74 🇵🇪 Quechua
84% distance
#75 🇫🇮 Finnish
86% distance
#76 🇹🇷 Turkish
86% distance
#77 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani
86% distance
#78 🇪🇷 Tigrinya
86% distance
#79 🇮🇳 Tamil
86% distance
#80 🇮🇳 Malayalam
86% distance
#81 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA)
87% distance
#82 🇪🇹 Amharic
87% distance
#83 🇯🇵 Japanese
87% distance
#84 🇺🇿 Uzbek
88% distance
#85 🇮🇳 Kannada
89% distance
#86 🇮🇳 Telugu
90% distance
#87 🇲🇲 Burmese
90% distance
#88 🇨🇳 Tibetan
91% distance
#89 🇰🇿 Kazakh
92% distance
#90 🇬🇪 Georgian
93% distance
#91 🇰🇷 Korean
93% distance
#92 🇲🇳 Mongolian
94% distance
#93 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz
96% distance
#94 🇷🇺 Tatar
96% distance
#95 🇨🇳 Uyghur
96% distance

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