Which languages are most similar?

This page lists how similar 260 languages are to each other based on bigrams. Hover over a language code for the language name. Click to see more explanation.


EnglishSimple English Scots Novial Anglo-Saxon Zhuang Igbo all
GermanLuxembourgish Low Saxon Pennsylvania German Alemannic Dutch West Flemsih all
FrenchOccitan Catalan Asturian Arpitan Interlingua Interlingue all
DutchDutch Low Saxon West Flemsih Limburgish Low Saxon Zealandic Frisian all
ItalianLigurian Venetian Interlingua Neapolitan Friulian Chavacano all
PolishCassubian Silesian Lower Sorbian Slovak Upper Sorbian Slovene all
SpanishChavacano Asturian Galician Aragonese Mirandese Catalan all
RussianBulgarian Ukrainian Macedonian Rusyn Serbian Moldavian all
PortugueseGalician Spanish Chavacano Mirandese Asturian Aragonese all
SwedishNynorsk Norwegian Danish Dutch Frisian Low Saxon all
CatalanAsturian Occitan Chavacano Spanish Aragonese Extremaduran all
UkrainianRusyn Russian Bulgarian Serbian Macedonian Belarusian all
NorwegianDanish Nynorsk Swedish Dutch Dutch Low Saxon Frisian all
FinnishEstonian Voro Lithuanian Maltese Esperanto Norfolk all
VietnameseHakka Min Nan Min Dong Kapampangan Tagalog Javanese all
CzechSlovak Slovene Serbocroatian Croatian Bosnian Upper Sorbian all
HungarianNorwegian Nynorsk Swedish Italian Breton Baque all
KoreanWu Cantonese Gan English Simple English Scots all
IndonesianMalay Banyumasan Banjar Javanese Sundanese Central Bicolano all
TurkishGagauz Crimean Tatar Karakalpak Turkmen Romani Zazaki all
RomanianInterlingua Italian Venetian Latin Corsican Sardinian all
FarsiGilaki Mazandarani Western Panjabi Urdu Pashto Sorani all
ArabicEgyptian Arabic Pashto Sindhi Gilaki Farsi Urdu all
DanishNorwegian Nynorsk Swedish Dutch Dutch Low Saxon West Flemsih all
EsperantoLadino Occitan Chavacano Spanish Italian Extremaduran all
SerbianMacedonian Russian Bulgarian Ukrainian Rusyn Moldavian all
LithuanianLatvian Tetum Finnish Estonian Esperanto Slovene all
SloveneSerbocroatian Croatian Bosnian Slovak Czech Upper Sorbian all
SlovakCzech Slovene Serbocroatian Croatian Bosnian Esperanto all
MalayIndonesian Banjar Banyumasan Javanese Sundanese Central Bicolano all
HebrewYiddish Wu Cantonese Ladino Korean Gan all
BulgarianMacedonian Russian Serbian Ukrainian Rusyn Moldavian all
KazakhKirghiz Tatar Karachay-Balkar Eastern Mari Bashkir Belarusian all
BaquePapiamentu Swedish Breton Nynorsk Norwegian North Frisian all
VolapükNovial Italian Tok Pisin Ligurian Siswati Venetian all
Waray-WarayCentral Bicolano Banjar Javanese Sundanese Indonesian Malay all
CroatianBosnian Serbocroatian Slovene Slovak Upper Sorbian Czech all
HindiNepali Sanskrit Marathi Bihari Nepal Bhasa Pali all
EstonianVoro Finnish Novial Lithuanian Latin Esperanto all
AzeriGagauz Turkish Crimean Tatar Uzbek Karakalpak Turkmen all
GalicianPortuguese Spanish Chavacano Asturian Aragonese Mirandese all
Simple EnglishEnglish Scots Novial Anglo-Saxon Igbo Zhuang all
NynorskNorwegian Danish Swedish Frisian Dutch Dutch Low Saxon all
ThaiWu English Simple English Scots Novial Italian all
Nepal BhasaMarathi Sanskrit Hindi Nepali Bihari Pali all
GreekPontic Wu Cantonese English Simple English Scots all
LatinCorsican Interlingue Italian Interlingua Novial Sardinian all
AromanianCorsican Italian Romanian Tetum Papiamentu Latin all
OccitanCatalan Chavacano Spanish Asturian Aragonese French all
TagalogJavanese Central Bicolano Kapampangan Banyumasan Banjar Sundanese all
MacedonianBulgarian Serbian Russian Ukrainian Rusyn Moldavian all
GeorgianMingrelian Wu Cantonese Simple English English Scots all
HaitianCentral Bicolano Sranan Kabyle Papiamentu Arpitan Bambara all
SerbocroatianBosnian Croatian Slovene Slovak Czech Upper Sorbian all
PiedmonteseLigurian Occitan Venetian Italian Aragonese Papiamentu all
TeluguWu Cantonese English Simple English Scots Novial all
TamilWu Cantonese English Simple English Scots Novial all
CebuanoCentral Bicolano Tagalog Javanese Sundanese Banyumasan Pangasian all
BelarusianBelarusian Rusyn Ukrainian Russian Bulgarian Tatar all
BretonNynorsk Swedish Norwegian West Flemsih Dutch Low Saxon Baque all
AlbanianNovial English Scots Simple English Nynorsk Aromanian all
LatvianLithuanian Latgalian Estonian Esperanto Maltese Aromanian all
JavaneseBanyumasan Sundanese Kapampangan Banjar Tagalog Indonesian all
BelarusianBelarusian Rusyn Ukrainian Russian Bulgarian Tatar all
WelshCornish Scots Zhuang English Simple English Manx all
LuxembourgishGerman Low Saxon Pennsylvania German Ripuarian West Flemsih Dutch all
MalagasyBanjar Central Bicolano Sundanese Papiamentu Indonesian Bambara all
MarathiSanskrit Nepali Hindi Nepal Bhasa Bihari Pali all
IcelandicFaroese Nynorsk Swedish Gagauz Turkish Aromanian all
BosnianCroatian Serbocroatian Slovene Slovak Upper Sorbian Czech all
YorubaNovial Igbo Italian Papiamentu Latin Nynorsk all
AragoneseSpanish Chavacano Asturian Galician Occitan Catalan all
Bishnupriya ManipuriBengali Assamese Sundanese Aromanian Tetum Sardinian all
LombardOccitan Venetian Catalan Chavacano Spanish Asturian all
FrisianDutch Low Saxon West Flemsih Dutch Norwegian Limburgish Nynorsk all
SwahiliTsonga Hausa Zulu Shona Kinyarwanda Siswati all
BengaliBishnupriya Manipuri Assamese English Simple English Scots Novial all
IdoLadino Esperanto Occitan Extremaduran Papiamentu Mirandese all
MalayalamWu Cantonese English Simple English Scots Novial all
GujaratiEnglish Simple English Scots Wu Novial Cantonese all
Western PanjabiUrdu Farsi Gilaki Mazandarani Sorani Pashto all
AfrikaansLimburgish Zealandic Dutch Dutch Low Saxon West Flemsih Frisian all
ArmenianWu Cantonese Korean Gan Tarantino Nauruan all
NepaliSanskrit Hindi Marathi Bihari Nepal Bhasa Pali all
Low SaxonDutch Dutch Low Saxon German Luxembourgish West Flemsih Ripuarian all
SicilianCorsican Latin Neapolitan Italian Sardinian Friulian all
UrduWestern Panjabi Farsi Gilaki Mazandarani Kashmiri Pashto all
KurdishZazaki Turkish Gagauz Crimean Tatar Romani Indonesian all
CantoneseWu English Simple English Scots Novial Gan all
QuechuaAymara Swahili Inupiak Sundanese Banjar Hausa all
SundaneseJavanese Banyumasan Banjar Indonesian Malay Central Bicolano all
ZazakiKurdish Crimean Tatar Turkish Romani Gagauz Kabyle all
AsturianSpanish Chavacano Catalan Galician Aragonese Extremaduran all
TatarKirghiz Karachay-Balkar Kazakh Eastern Mari Sakha Moldavian all
IrishScots Gaelic Scots Bavarian Aromanian Igbo Tetum all
NeapolitanItalian Ligurian Corsican Venetian Sardinian Interlingua all
ChuvashMoldavian Tatar Bulgarian Kirghiz Russian Macedonian all
SamogitianLithuanian Latgalian Finnish Latvian Esperanto Extremaduran all
InterlinguaInterlingue Italian Ligurian Venetian Novial Chavacano all
WalloonFrench Novial Interlingue Picard Interlingua Asturian all
AmharicTigrinya Wu Cantonese English Simple English Novial all
KannadaWu Cantonese English Simple English Scots Novial all
AlemannicPennsylvania German Palatinate Bavarian Ripuarian German Luxembourgish all
BanyumasanJavanese Indonesian Malay Sundanese Banjar Central Bicolano all
BugineseRomani Indonesian Malay Sundanese Kinyarwanda Zazaki all
BurmeseEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Italian Interlingua all
Min NanHakka Vietnamese Min Dong Kapampangan Tagalog Javanese all
TajikKirghiz Bulgarian Russian Serbian Sakha Kalmyk all
VenetianItalian Ligurian Chavacano Spanish Occitan Portuguese all
YiddishHebrew Wu Cantonese Ladino Korean Gan all
TarantinoItalian Interlingua Neapolitan Ligurian Venetian French all
Scots GaelicIrish Waray-Waray Scots Bavarian Tetum Igbo all
OsseticTajik Kirghiz Karachay-Balkar Komi-Permyak Sakha Komi all
Egyptian ArabicArabic Pashto Sindhi Gilaki Farsi Mazandarani all
NahuatlInterlingue Italian Extremaduran Corsican Aragonese Latin all
SakhaKirghiz Buryat Mongolian Kalmyk Tajik Tatar all
ScotsSimple English English Novial Anglo-Saxon Zhuang Latin all
UzbekGagauz Romani Turkish Karakalpak Crimean Tatar Aromanian all
KapampanganJavanese Tagalog Banyumasan Sundanese Central Bicolano Indonesian all
Fiji HindiOromo Sundanese Tetum Igbo Aromanian Novial all
SanskritNepali Marathi Hindi Nepal Bhasa Bihari Pali all
MongolianBuryat Kalmyk Sakha Kirghiz Tajik Karachay-Balkar all
Upper SorbianLower Sorbian Croatian Bosnian Silesian Serbocroatian Slovene all
MaoriTongan Tahitian Sundanese Banyumasan Javanese Indonesian all
LimburgishZealandic Dutch Low Saxon West Flemsih Dutch Afrikaans Frisian all
BashkirTatar Kazakh Kirghiz Karachay-Balkar Eastern Mari Komi-Permyak all
CorsicanSicilian Italian Latin Neapolitan Friulian Sardinian all
SinhalaEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Anglo-Saxon Italian all
GanCantonese Wu English Simple English Scots Novial all
GilakiFarsi Mazandarani Pashto Western Panjabi Urdu Sorani all
FaroeseIcelandic Nynorsk Swedish Latin Sundanese Corsican all
Central BicolanoTagalog Javanese Sundanese Banjar Banyumasan Pangasian all
SoraniFarsi Gilaki Mazandarani Western Panjabi Urdu Pashto all
BavarianAlemannic Pennsylvania German Palatinate German Ripuarian Low Saxon all
TibetanDzongkha Samoan Italian Interlingua Siswati French all
Western MariEastern Mari Kirghiz Tatar Moldavian Karachay-Balkar Russian all
VoroEstonian Finnish Lithuanian Tetum Greenlandic Maltese all
Dutch Low SaxonDutch West Flemsih Limburgish Zealandic Low Saxon Frisian all
IlokanoCentral Bicolano Sundanese Tagalog Banjar Indonesian Banyumasan all
KirghizTatar Kazakh Karachay-Balkar Eastern Mari Sakha Tajik all
TurkmenTurkish Gagauz Crimean Tatar Indonesian Karakalpak Malay all
West FlemsihDutch Low Saxon Dutch Limburgish Zealandic Frisian Low Saxon all
Northern SamiEstonian Aromanian Voro Finnish Lithuanian Latvian all
ManxCornish Aromanian Scots Simple English Welsh English all
DivehiWu Cantonese English Simple English Scots Novial all
NormanFrench Arpitan Picard Occitan Walloon Interlingue all
RusynUkrainian Russian Bulgarian Macedonian Serbian Belarusian all
PangasianCentral Bicolano Banjar Sundanese Javanese Tagalog Banyumasan all
PunjabiEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Anglo-Saxon Wu all
RomanshEmilian-Romagnol Friulian Italian Occitan Sardinian Corsican all
MazandaraniFarsi Gilaki Pashto Western Panjabi Urdu Sorani all
PashtoMazandarani Gilaki Sindhi Farsi Egyptian Arabic Urdu all
KhmerEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Anglo-Saxon Italian all
UdmurtKomi-Permyak Komi Russian Moldavian Kirghiz Eastern Mari all
FriulianItalian Corsican Venetian Ligurian Romansh Novial all
CassubianPolish Silesian Lower Sorbian Upper Sorbian Slovak Slovene all
WuCantonese English Simple English Scots Novial Zhuang all
MalteseFinnish Papiamentu Estonian Italian Friulian Novial all
UyghurSorani Egyptian Arabic Gilaki Pashto Farsi Sindhi all
LigurianItalian Venetian Interlingua Neapolitan Portuguese Galician all
Komi-PermyakKomi Udmurt Russian Kirghiz Moksha Rusyn all
PaliBihari Sanskrit Marathi Nepali Hindi Nepal Bhasa all
Eastern MariWestern Mari Kirghiz Tatar Moldavian Kazakh Karachay-Balkar all
KomiKomi-Permyak Udmurt Kirghiz Russian Tatar Eastern Mari all
Anglo-SaxonEnglish Simple English Novial Scots Interlingue Swedish all
LadinoChavacano Spanish Asturian Occitan Mirandese Esperanto all
BihariHindi Nepali Marathi Pali Sanskrit Nepal Bhasa all
SardinianPortuguese Ligurian Mirandese Galician Venetian Occitan all
NovialInterlingue Interlingua English Simple English Italian Scots all
Classical ChineseCantonese Wu Gan Romanian Novial Esperanto all
RipuarianPennsylvania German Alemannic Luxembourgish Palatinate Low Saxon German all
ChavacanoSpanish Asturian Galician Aragonese Catalan Occitan all
SomaliOromo Wolof Hausa Banjar Fiji Hindi Gagauz all
HakkaMin Nan Min Dong Vietnamese Kapampangan Zhuang Tagalog all
NavajoSomali Oromo Wolof Uzbek Fiji Hindi Cree all
CornishSimple English English Scots Novial Breton Romani all
ArpitanOccitan French Asturian Spanish Chavacano Catalan all
Saterland FrisianDutch Low Saxon West Flemsih North Frisian Low Saxon Frisian Dutch all
SilesianLower Sorbian Upper Sorbian Polish Croatian Serbocroatian Bosnian all
ExtremaduranChavacano Asturian Spanish Aragonese Occitan Catalan all
OriyaEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Italian Anglo-Saxon all
InterlingueInterlingua Novial Catalan Occitan Asturian Italian all
PicardFrench Walloon Friulian Ligurian Italian Norman all
KalmykMongolian Buryat Kirghiz Sakha Tajik Tatar all
Hawai'ianBambara Tsonga Swahili Tetum Romani Tongan all
MingrelianGeorgian Wu Cantonese Korean Gan Tarantino all
KinyarwandaKirundi Shona Swahili Zulu Hausa Sundanese all
LingalaKongo Zulu Pangasian Swahili Siswati Bambara all
North FrisianDutch Low Saxon Dutch Low Saxon Frisian Saterland Frisian Luxembourgish all
Pennsylvania GermanAlemannic Palatinate German Ripuarian Luxembourgish Bavarian all
PalatinateAlemannic Pennsylvania German Bavarian Ripuarian Luxembourgish German all
AymaraQuechua Hausa Swahili Sundanese Banjar Romani all
Karachay-BalkarKirghiz Tatar Kazakh Eastern Mari Lak Tajik all
TonganMaori Zulu Siswati Sundanese Javanese Tsonga all
AcehneseSundanese Banyumasan Javanese Banjar Tagalog Central Bicolano all
Emilian-RomagnolRomansh Friulian Corsican Italian Ligurian Lombard all
Crimean TatarTurkish Gagauz Karakalpak Zazaki Kurdish Turkmen all
ChechenLak Avar Karachay-Balkar Sakha Kirghiz Tajik all
GuaraniTetum Romani Portuguese Nynorsk Papiamentu Aromanian all
ErzyaMoksha Russian Rusyn Ukrainian Bulgarian Moldavian all
ZealandicLimburgish Dutch Low Saxon West Flemsih Dutch Afrikaans German all
AramaicWu Cantonese Interlingue Novial Nauruan Latin all
GreenlandicOromo Finnish Voro Inupiak Estonian Sundanese all
PapiamentuCorsican Ladino Sundanese Tetum Italian Sardinian all
GagauzTurkish Crimean Tatar Karakalpak Azeri Turkmen Uzbek all
BanjarMalay Indonesian Banyumasan Javanese Sundanese Central Bicolano all
LakAvar Chechen Karachay-Balkar Kirghiz Tajik Sakha all
Tok PisinBislama Siswati Zulu Javanese Tagalog Kapampangan all
WolofOromo Somali North Frisian Estonian Bambara Akan all
LojbanNeapolitan Esperanto Samoan Occitan Slovene Extremaduran all
AssameseBengali Bishnupriya Manipuri English Simple English Scots Novial all
MokshaErzya Russian Ukrainian Rusyn Tajik Bulgarian all
AvarLak Chechen Karachay-Balkar Kirghiz Tajik Tatar all
KabyleSwedish Crimean Tatar Turkish Ladino Nynorsk Norwegian all
Lower SorbianUpper Sorbian Silesian Croatian Slovene Bosnian Serbocroatian all
TahitianMaori Interlingua Tetum Romanian Latin Italian all
ShonaKirundi Tsonga Kinyarwanda Swahili Zulu Sundanese all
SrananPapiamentu Banyumasan Indonesian Sundanese Malay Romani all
LaotianEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Wu Italian all
AbkhazianTatar Kirghiz Sakha Karachay-Balkar Tajik Kazakh all
IgboEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Papiamentu Siswati all
NauruanBanyumasan Javanese Central Bicolano Indonesian Sranan Papiamentu all
TetumPapiamentu Sardinian Novial Sundanese Interlingue Aromanian all
KongoLingala Tsonga Banyumasan Indonesian Sundanese Zulu all
MirandeseSpanish Chavacano Galician Portuguese Occitan Asturian all
KarakalpakCrimean Tatar Turkish Gagauz Uzbek Romani Turkmen all
LatgalianLithuanian Latvian Estonian Finnish Esperanto Slovene all
Northern SothoSetswana Siswati Tsonga Samoan Zulu Kongo all
RomaniIndonesian Sundanese Malay Turkish Tetum Banyumasan all
Old Church SlavonicRussian Bulgarian Serbian Rusyn Ukrainian Macedonian all
KarbadianKarachay-Balkar Avar Buryat Sakha Mongolian Lak all
SetswanaNorthern Sotho Siswati Zulu Tsonga Kongo Lingala all
SamoanNorthern Sotho Interlingua Lojban Estonian Tetum Northern Sami all
MoldavianRussian Bulgarian Serbian Kirghiz Macedonian Ukrainian all
SindhiPashto Gilaki Egyptian Arabic Farsi Mazandarani Arabic all
BislamaTok Pisin Siswati Novial Javanese Sundanese Zulu all
BambaraCentral Bicolano Banjar Javanese Banyumasan Pangasian Indonesian all
InupiakQuechua Greenlandic Latin Sicilian Estonian Corsican all
SiswatiZulu Novial Tsonga English Simple English Scots all
InuktitutInupiak Greenlandic Latin Sicilian Corsican Finnish all
NorfolkNovial Interlingue Asturian Ladino Catalan French all
ZhuangGerman English Simple English Scots Dutch Low Saxon all
CherokeeNovial Italian English Interlingua Interlingue Latin all
PonticGreek Wu Cantonese Interlingue Novial Tarantino all
GothicTetum Banjar Sundanese Lithuanian Hausa Indonesian all
Min DongHakka Vietnamese Kapampangan Min Nan Tagalog Javanese all
EweNauruan Siswati Igbo Kabyle Bambara Tsonga all
HausaBanjar Central Bicolano Swahili Sundanese Bambara Indonesian all
ZuluSiswati Tsonga Javanese Banyumasan Swahili Sundanese all
TigrinyaAmharic Alemannic Bavarian Palatinate Ligurian Pennsylvania German all
KashmiriUrdu Western Panjabi Farsi Gilaki Mazandarani Pashto all
BuryatMongolian Kalmyk Sakha Kirghiz Tajik Karachay-Balkar all
OromoSomali Fiji Hindi Wolof Sundanese Bambara Banjar all
VendaZulu Siswati Tsonga Waray-Waray Swahili Shona all
TsongaSiswati Zulu Swahili Shona Kongo Javanese all
SangroTagalog Kapampangan Banyumasan Javanese Acehnese Lingala all
KirundiKinyarwanda Shona Sundanese Zulu Javanese Indonesian all
CreeSwahili Tsonga Quechua Shona Siswati Zulu all
DzongkhaTibetan Italian Simple English Novial English Interlingua all
AkanBambara Papiamentu Central Bicolano Tetum Igbo Banyumasan all


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Created November 4 2012, Denny Vrandečić.