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Languages to learn if you speak Mandarin Chinese

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

#1 🇭🇰 Cantonese

#2 🇻🇳 Vietnamese

#3 🇲🇲 Burmese

#4 🇱🇦 Lao

#5 🇹🇭 Thai

#6 🇨🇳 Tibetan

#7 🇰🇭 Khmer

#8 🇿🇦 Zulu

#9 🇰🇷 Korean

#10 🇳🇬 Yoruba

#11 🇬🇧 English

#12 🇭🇹 Haitian Creole

#13 🇮🇳 Punjabi

#14 🇯🇵 Japanese

#15 🇰🇪 Swahili

#16 🇵🇾 Guarani

#17 🇿🇦 Afrikaans

#18 🇮🇩 Javanese

#19 🇮🇹 Sicilian

#20 🇮🇳 Hindi

#21 🇵🇰 Urdu

#22 🇮🇳 Gujarati

#23 🇳🇬 Hausa

#24 🇮🇩 Indonesian

#25 🇲🇾 Malay

#26 🇳🇱 Dutch

#27 🇸🇪 Swedish

#28 🇩🇰 Danish

#29 🇧🇬 Bulgarian

#30 🇲🇰 Macedonian

#31 🇮🇷 Persian (Farsi)

#32 🇹🇯 Tajik

#33 🇳🇵 Nepali

#34 🇪🇸 Spanish

#35 🇵🇹 Portuguese

#36 🇪🇸 Galician

#37 🇫🇷 French

#38 🇮🇹 Italian

#39 🏴 Catalan

#40 🇫🇷 Occitan

#41 🇮🇹 Sardinian

#42 🇧🇩 Bengali

#43 🇮🇱 Hebrew

#44 🇲🇹 Maltese

#45 🇮🇳 Kannada

#46 🇳🇴 Norwegian

#47 🇦🇫 Pashto

#48 🇪🇪 Estonian

#49 🇳🇴 Northern Sami

#50 🇮🇳 Telugu

#51 🇵🇪 Quechua

#52 🇫🇴 Faroese

#53 🇷🇺 Russian

#54 🇸🇰 Slovak

#55 🇸🇮 Slovenian

#56 🇱🇻 Latvian

#57 🇱🇹 Lithuanian

#58 🇮🇸 Icelandic

#59 🇷🇴 Romanian

#60 🇺🇦 Ukrainian

#61 🇧🇾 Belarusian

#62 🇵🇱 Polish

#63 🇨🇿 Czech

#64 🇭🇷 Croatian/Serbian

#65 🇦🇲 Armenian

#66 🇮🇳 Marathi

#67 🇱🇰 Sinhala

#68 🇬🇪 Georgian

#69 🇮🇱 Yiddish

#70 🇱🇺 Luxembourgish

#71 🇦🇱 Albanian

#72 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Welsh

#73 🇪🇷 Tigrinya

#74 🇵🇭 Tagalog

#75 🇩🇪 German

#76 🇬🇷 Greek

#77 🏳️ Kurdish

#78 🇫🇮 Finnish

#79 🇪🇹 Amharic

#80 🇮🇳 Tamil

#81 🇮🇳 Malayalam

#82 🇮🇪 Irish

#83 🇺🇿 Uzbek

#84 🇸🇦 Arabic (MSA)

#85 🇸🇴 Somali

#86 🏳️ Basque

#87 🇭🇺 Hungarian

#88 🇹🇷 Turkish

#89 🇦🇿 Azerbaijani

#90 🇹🇲 Turkmen

#91 🇰🇿 Kazakh

#92 🇰🇬 Kyrgyz

#93 🇷🇺 Tatar

#94 🇨🇳 Uyghur

#95 🇲🇳 Mongolian

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