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Languages to learn if you speak Swahili

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

#1 🇿🇦 Zulu

#2 🇮🇩 Indonesian

#3 🇳🇬 Yoruba

#4 🇵🇾 Guarani

#5 🇻🇳 Vietnamese

#6 🇬🇧 English

#7 🇪🇪 Estonian

#8 🇳🇴 Northern Sami

#9 🇲🇾 Malay

#10 🇵🇭 Tagalog

#11 🇵🇪 Quechua

#12 🇮🇹 Sardinian

#13 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole

#14 🇪🇸 Spanish

#15 🇪🇸 Galician

#16 🇫🇷 Occitan

#17 🇮🇹 Sicilian

#18 🇿🇦 Afrikaans

#19 🇱🇻 Latvian

#20 🇮🇩 Javanese

#21 🏳️ Basque

#22 🇵🇹 Portuguese

#23 🇫🇷 French

#24 🇮🇹 Italian

#25 🏴 Catalan

#26 🇸🇰 Slovak

#27 🇱🇹 Lithuanian

#28 🇫🇮 Finnish

#29 🇲🇹 Maltese

#30 🇳🇱 Dutch

#31 🇸🇪 Swedish

#32 🇩🇰 Danish

#33 🇨🇿 Czech

#34 🇸🇮 Slovenian

#35 🇵🇱 Polish

#36 🇦🇱 Albanian

#37 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh

#38 🇳🇴 Norwegian

#39 🇷🇴 Romanian

#40 🇭🇺 Hungarian

#41 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish

#42 🇺🇿 Uzbek

#43 🇨🇳 Mandarin Chinese

#44 🇭🇰 Cantonese

#45 🇰🇭 Khmer

#46 🇹🇭 Thai

#47 🇱🇦 Lao

#48 🇩🇪 German

#49 🇮🇸 Icelandic

#50 🇫🇴 Faroese

#51 🇹🇷 Turkish

#52 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani

#53 🇹🇲 Turkmen

#54 🇮🇪 Irish

#55 🇳🇬 Hausa

#56 🇲🇲 Burmese

#57 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian

#58 🇧🇩 Bengali

#59 🇲🇰 Macedonian

#60 🇮🇱 Hebrew

#61 🇬🇪 Georgian

#62 🇯🇵 Japanese

#63 🇰🇷 Korean

#64 🇧🇬 Bulgarian

#65 🇷🇺 Russian

#66 🇧🇾 Belarusian

#67 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)

#68 🇹🇯 Tajik

#69 🏳️ Kurdish

#70 🇮🇳 Hindi

#71 🇵🇰 Urdu

#72 🇮🇳 Punjabi

#73 🇮🇳 Marathi

#74 🇱🇰 Sinhala

#75 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA)

#76 🇨🇳 Tibetan

#77 🇺🇦 Ukrainian

#78 🇦🇫 Pashto

#79 🇮🇳 Gujarati

#80 🇰🇿 Kazakh

#81 🇸🇴 Somali

#82 🇳🇵 Nepali

#83 🇮🇳 Tamil

#84 🇮🇳 Telugu

#85 🇮🇳 Kannada

#86 🇮🇳 Malayalam

#87 🇬🇷 Greek

#88 🇦🇲 Armenian

#89 🇮🇱 Yiddish

#90 🇪🇷 Tigrinya

#91 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz

#92 🇷🇺 Tatar

#93 🇨🇳 Uyghur

#94 🇪🇹 Amharic

#95 🇲🇳 Mongolian

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