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Languages to learn if you speak Cantonese

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

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

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