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Languages to learn if you speak Russian

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

#1 🇧🇾 Belarusian

#2 🇺🇦 Ukrainian

#3 🇲🇰 Macedonian

#4 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian

#5 🇧🇬 Bulgarian

#6 🇸🇰 Slovak

#7 🇸🇮 Slovenian

#8 🇨🇿 Czech

#9 🇵🇱 Polish

#10 🇱🇹 Lithuanian

#11 🇱🇻 Latvian

#12 🇬🇷 Greek

#13 🇹🇯 Tajik

#14 🇦🇫 Pashto

#15 🇷🇴 Romanian

#16 🇦🇱 Albanian

#17 🇳🇵 Nepali

#18 🇪🇸 Spanish

#19 🇮🇳 Gujarati

#20 🇮🇳 Hindi

#21 🇵🇰 Urdu

#22 🇮🇳 Punjabi

#23 🇮🇹 Sardinian

#24 🇩🇪 German

#25 🇮🇱 Yiddish

#26 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish

#27 🇪🇸 Galician

#28 🇫🇷 Occitan

#29 🇮🇹 Sicilian

#30 🇦🇲 Armenian

#31 🇮🇪 Irish

#32 🏳️ Kurdish

#33 🇮🇳 Marathi

#34 🇮🇸 Icelandic

#35 🇫🇴 Faroese

#36 🇵🇹 Portuguese

#37 🇫🇷 French

#38 🇮🇹 Italian

#39 🏴 Catalan

#40 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh

#41 🇱🇰 Sinhala

#42 🇳🇱 Dutch

#43 🇳🇴 Norwegian

#44 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole

#45 🇧🇩 Bengali

#46 🇷🇺 Tatar

#47 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)

#48 🇬🇧 English

#49 🇿🇦 Afrikaans

#50 🇸🇪 Swedish

#51 🇩🇰 Danish

#52 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz

#53 🇺🇿 Uzbek

#54 🇲🇳 Mongolian

#55 🇮🇱 Hebrew

#56 🇳🇴 Northern Sami

#57 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA)

#58 🇲🇹 Maltese

#59 🇪🇹 Amharic

#60 🇳🇬 Hausa

#61 🇮🇳 Tamil

#62 🇮🇳 Telugu

#63 🇮🇳 Kannada

#64 🇮🇳 Malayalam

#65 🇰🇪 Swahili

#66 🇪🇪 Estonian

#67 🇬🇪 Georgian

#68 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese

#69 🇭🇰 Cantonese

#70 🇻🇳 Vietnamese

#71 🇰🇭 Khmer

#72 🇹🇭 Thai

#73 🇱🇦 Lao

#74 🇪🇷 Tigrinya

#75 🇰🇷 Korean

#76 🇮🇩 Indonesian

#77 🇲🇾 Malay

#78 🇿🇦 Zulu

#79 🇵🇪 Quechua

#80 🇵🇾 Guarani

#81 🇸🇴 Somali

#82 🇯🇵 Japanese

#83 🏳️ Basque

#84 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani

#85 🇵🇭 Tagalog

#86 🇫🇮 Finnish

#87 🇰🇿 Kazakh

#88 🇲🇲 Burmese

#89 🇨🇳 Tibetan

#90 🇮🇩 Javanese

#91 🇳🇬 Yoruba

#92 🇹🇲 Turkmen

#93 🇨🇳 Uyghur

#94 🇭🇺 Hungarian

#95 🇹🇷 Turkish

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