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Languages to learn if you speak Zulu

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

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

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