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Languages to learn if you speak Sinhala

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

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

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