Which languages are most similar?

This page lists how similar 260 languages are to each other based on letter frequency. Click to see more explanation.


EnglishSimple English Scots Novial Interlingua Pennsylvania German Alemannic all
GermanLuxembourgish Pennsylvania German Low Saxon Dutch Frisian Alemannic all
FrenchInterlingua Asturian Walloon Picard Catalan Occitan all
DutchLimburgish Dutch Low Saxon West Flemsih Zealandic Afrikaans Frisian all
ItalianLigurian Venetian Interlingua Friulian Interlingue Chavacano all
PolishLower Sorbian Silesian Upper Sorbian Cassubian Nauruan Igbo all
SpanishChavacano Asturian Mirandese Galician Aragonese Occitan all
RussianBulgarian Macedonian Serbian Erzya Ukrainian Moksha all
PortugueseGalician Spanish Aragonese Chavacano Mirandese Venetian all
SwedishNynorsk North Frisian Norwegian Danish Novial Simple English all
CatalanOccitan Asturian Chavacano Spanish Mirandese Interlingua all
UkrainianRusyn Russian Bulgarian Macedonian Moksha Serbian all
NorwegianDanish Nynorsk Frisian Afrikaans Dutch Limburgish all
FinnishEstonian Voro Norfolk Tetum Siswati Lithuanian all
VietnameseMin Nan Hakka Nahuatl Irish Zhuang Bavarian all
CzechSlovak Slovene Esperanto Croatian Serbocroatian Bosnian all
HungarianNynorsk Swedish Norwegian Novial Czech Siswati all
KoreanVolapük Norman Ido Tarantino Wu Interlingue all
IndonesianMalay Banyumasan Sundanese Javanese Oromo Acehnese all
TurkishGagauz Crimean Tatar Karakalpak Turkmen Zazaki Romani all
RomanianInterlingue Friulian Latin Italian Interlingua Extremaduran all
FarsiGilaki Mazandarani Western Panjabi Urdu Pashto Sorani all
ArabicEgyptian Arabic Sindhi Pashto Gilaki Farsi Mazandarani all
DanishNorwegian Nynorsk Afrikaans Frisian Dutch Limburgish all
EsperantoSerbocroatian Croatian Bosnian Slovene Ladino Papiamentu all
SerbianMacedonian Bulgarian Russian Moldavian Tajik Ukrainian all
LithuanianLatgalian Serbocroatian Croatian Bosnian Latvian Estonian all
SloveneBosnian Croatian Serbocroatian Esperanto Slovak Ladino all
SlovakCzech Slovene Serbocroatian Croatian Bosnian Esperanto all
MalayIndonesian Banyumasan Sundanese Javanese Oromo Acehnese all
HebrewYiddish Ladino Norman Tarantino Volapük Ido all
BulgarianMacedonian Russian Serbian Moldavian Tajik Moksha all
KazakhKirghiz Tatar Belarusian Bashkir Karachay-Balkar Belarusian all
BaqueBreton Papiamentu Tetum Fiji Hindi Igbo Sranan all
VolapükBislama Ido Tok Pisin Ladino North Frisian Finnish all
Waray-WarayCentral Bicolano Cebuano Acehnese Sundanese Banyumasan Pangasian all
CroatianBosnian Serbocroatian Slovene Esperanto Slovak Lithuanian all
HindiNepali Marathi Bihari Sanskrit Nepal Bhasa Pali all
EstonianFinnish Voro Norfolk Northern Sami Ido Ladino all
AzeriGagauz Turkish Crimean Tatar Uzbek Karakalpak Emilian-Romagnol all
GalicianPortuguese Aragonese Spanish Chavacano Mirandese Venetian all
Simple EnglishEnglish Scots Novial Pennsylvania German Interlingua Anglo-Saxon all
NynorskNorwegian Danish Swedish Novial Frisian Afrikaans all
ThaiWu Ido Norman Tarantino Interlingue Volapük all
Nepal BhasaSanskrit Nepali Marathi Hindi Bihari Pali all
GreekPontic Norman Ido Tarantino Interlingue Volapük all
LatinInterlingue Romanian Sardinian Extremaduran Friulian Italian all
AromanianAragonese Tetum Papiamentu Romansh Mirandese Extremaduran all
OccitanCatalan Asturian Mirandese Chavacano Spanish Aragonese all
TagalogCentral Bicolano Kapampangan Javanese Cebuano Pangasian Banjar all
MacedonianBulgarian Serbian Russian Tajik Moldavian Ukrainian all
GeorgianMingrelian Volapük Ido Norman Tarantino Interlingue all
HaitianTok Pisin Bislama Nauruan Sranan Cornish Siswati all
SerbocroatianBosnian Croatian Slovene Esperanto Slovak Lithuanian all
PiedmonteseRomansh Emilian-Romagnol Aragonese Occitan Papiamentu Lombard all
TeluguNorman Ido Interlingue Tarantino English Simple English all
TamilNorman Ido Volapük Tarantino Interlingue Nauruan all
CebuanoCentral Bicolano Sundanese Banyumasan Waray-Waray Pangasian Tagalog all
BelarusianBelarusian Kazakh Rusyn Kirghiz Karachay-Balkar Chechen all
BretonBaque Dutch Limburgish Spanish Venetian Ladino all
AlbanianScots Novial Nynorsk North Frisian Simple English English all
LatvianLatgalian Lithuanian Estonian Sardinian Croatian Serbocroatian all
JavaneseBanyumasan Sundanese Kapampangan Indonesian Malay Acehnese all
BelarusianBelarusian Kazakh Kirghiz Rusyn Karachay-Balkar Chechen all
WelshManx Cornish Turkmen Igbo Bavarian Zhuang all
LuxembourgishGerman Low Saxon Pennsylvania German Dutch West Flemsih Limburgish all
MalagasyCentral Bicolano Waray-Waray Pangasian Oromo Ilokano Bambara all
MarathiBihari Nepali Hindi Nepal Bhasa Sanskrit Pali all
IcelandicFaroese Swedish North Frisian Tetum Nynorsk Romansh all
BosnianCroatian Serbocroatian Slovene Esperanto Slovak Lithuanian all
YorubaIgbo Bislama Sranan Tok Pisin Esperanto Slovene all
AragoneseGalician Chavacano Spanish Mirandese Asturian Occitan all
Bishnupriya ManipuriBengali Assamese Ido Aromanian Papiamentu Tetum all
LombardOccitan Catalan Romansh Chavacano Asturian Spanish all
FrisianDutch Afrikaans Dutch Low Saxon Norwegian Danish West Flemsih all
SwahiliTsonga Oromo Hausa Kongo Aymara Shona all
BengaliBishnupriya Manipuri Assamese English Simple English Scots Aragonese all
IdoLadino Esperanto Mirandese Papiamentu Romani Tetum all
MalayalamNorman Ido Volapük Tarantino Interlingue Nauruan all
GujaratiEnglish Simple English Scots Interlingue Norman Novial all
Western PanjabiUrdu Farsi Gilaki Mazandarani Kashmiri Sorani all
AfrikaansLimburgish Dutch Dutch Low Saxon Zealandic Frisian West Flemsih all
ArmenianVolapük Norman Ido Wu Tarantino Nauruan all
NepaliHindi Marathi Sanskrit Bihari Nepal Bhasa Pali all
Low SaxonLuxembourgish German West Flemsih Dutch Low Saxon Dutch Frisian all
SicilianCorsican Greenlandic Latin Inupiak Emilian-Romagnol Romansh all
UrduWestern Panjabi Farsi Gilaki Kashmiri Mazandarani Sorani all
KurdishZazaki Sranan Turkish Kabyle Frisian Crimean Tatar all
CantoneseWu Gan Classical Chinese Zhuang Norman Interlingue all
QuechuaAymara Swahili Greenlandic Inupiak Banjar Hausa all
SundaneseBanyumasan Indonesian Javanese Malay Acehnese Tetum all
ZazakiKurdish Crimean Tatar Turkish Igbo Breton Kabyle all
AsturianSpanish Chavacano Mirandese Occitan Catalan Interlingua all
TatarKirghiz Bashkir Karachay-Balkar Eastern Mari Kazakh Moldavian all
IrishScots Gaelic Tetum Romansh Sundanese Waray-Waray Fiji Hindi all
NeapolitanLigurian Aragonese Venetian Italian Occitan Interlingua all
ChuvashMoldavian Bulgarian Tatar Kirghiz Moksha Karachay-Balkar all
SamogitianLithuanian Latgalian Croatian Serbocroatian Bosnian Latvian all
InterlinguaInterlingue Asturian Italian Chavacano Novial Spanish all
WalloonFrench Novial Interlingua Afrikaans Picard Asturian all
AmharicTigrinya Norman Tarantino Ido Volapük Interlingue all
KannadaNorman Ido Tarantino Volapük Interlingue Nauruan all
AlemannicPennsylvania German Palatinate German Luxembourgish English Simple English all
BanyumasanIndonesian Malay Sundanese Javanese Acehnese Kapampangan all
BuginesePapiamentu Tetum Sundanese Sranan Indonesian Igbo all
BurmeseEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Italian Interlingua all
Min NanHakka Vietnamese Cree Irish Zulu Siswati all
TajikMacedonian Serbian Bulgarian Russian Sakha Lak all
VenetianLigurian Italian Chavacano Interlingua Spanish Aragonese all
YiddishHebrew Ladino Norman Tarantino Wu Volapük all
TarantinoLimburgish Zealandic Luxembourgish Dutch French Interlingua all
Scots GaelicIrish Waray-Waray Oromo Sundanese Malay Indonesian all
OsseticKirghiz Udmurt Komi-Permyak Komi Karachay-Balkar Sakha all
Egyptian ArabicArabic Sindhi Pashto Gilaki Farsi Mazandarani all
NahuatlCorsican Aromanian Emilian-Romagnol Siswati Italian Romansh all
SakhaKirghiz Mongolian Buryat Karachay-Balkar Kalmyk Lak all
ScotsSimple English English Novial Interlingue Interlingua Pennsylvania German all
UzbekIlokano Lithuanian Tetum Greenlandic Oromo Romani all
KapampanganJavanese Tagalog Banyumasan Central Bicolano Sundanese Indonesian all
Fiji HindiRomani Oromo Tetum Papiamentu Indonesian Malay all
SanskritNepal Bhasa Nepali Hindi Marathi Bihari Pali all
MongolianBuryat Kalmyk Sakha Kirghiz Karachay-Balkar Lak all
Upper SorbianLower Sorbian Silesian Polish Croatian Bosnian Serbocroatian all
MaoriTongan Tahitian Baque Fiji Hindi Igbo Nauruan all
LimburgishDutch Dutch Low Saxon Zealandic West Flemsih Afrikaans Frisian all
BashkirTatar Kazakh Kirghiz Eastern Mari Karachay-Balkar Sakha all
CorsicanSicilian Latin Extremaduran Sardinian Romansh Romanian all
SinhalaEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Interlingue Interlingua all
GanCantonese Wu Classical Chinese Ido Norman Volapük all
GilakiFarsi Mazandarani Western Panjabi Urdu Pashto Egyptian Arabic all
FaroeseIcelandic Swedish Tetum Greenlandic North Frisian Nynorsk all
Central BicolanoTagalog Pangasian Cebuano Javanese Waray-Waray Kapampangan all
SoraniFarsi Gilaki Mazandarani Western Panjabi Urdu Pashto all
BavarianZhuang North Frisian Palatinate Igbo Pennsylvania German Sardinian all
TibetanDzongkha Maltese Bislama Interlingue Friulian Siswati all
Western MariEastern Mari Kirghiz Udmurt Tatar Komi-Permyak Karachay-Balkar all
VoroEstonian Finnish Greenlandic Lithuanian Maltese Northern Sami all
Dutch Low SaxonWest Flemsih Dutch Limburgish Zealandic Afrikaans Low Saxon all
IlokanoOromo Pangasian Javanese Sundanese Indonesian Banyumasan all
KirghizKarachay-Balkar Sakha Tatar Eastern Mari Kazakh Udmurt all
TurkmenGagauz Turkish Crimean Tatar Welsh Kabyle Romani all
West FlemsihDutch Low Saxon Dutch Zealandic Limburgish Afrikaans Low Saxon all
Northern SamiEstonian Ido Tetum Romani Esperanto Serbocroatian all
ManxCornish Simple English Zhuang English Romani Scots all
DivehiNorman Tarantino Volapük Ido Interlingue English all
NormanFrench Picard Occitan Arpitan Interlingue Asturian all
RusynUkrainian Russian Komi-Permyak Udmurt Moksha Erzya all
PangasianCentral Bicolano Banyumasan Indonesian Cebuano Oromo Malay all
PunjabiEnglish Simple English Scots Interlingue Norman Novial all
RomanshExtremaduran Occitan Emilian-Romagnol Piedmontese Catalan Lombard all
MazandaraniGilaki Farsi Pashto Western Panjabi Urdu Sorani all
PashtoSindhi Mazandarani Gilaki Egyptian Arabic Farsi Arabic all
KhmerEnglish Simple English Scots Novial Interlingua Interlingue all
UdmurtKomi-Permyak Komi Russian Moksha Erzya Moldavian all
FriulianInterlingue Italian Romanian Interlingua Catalan Latin all
CassubianPolish Lower Sorbian Upper Sorbian Silesian Bavarian Zhuang all
WuCantonese Gan Classical Chinese Zhuang Norman Interlingue all
MalteseEstonian Norfolk Greenlandic Tetum Siswati Northern Sami all
UyghurEgyptian Arabic Arabic Gilaki Sorani Pashto Farsi all
LigurianItalian Venetian Aragonese Galician Interlingua Chavacano all
Komi-PermyakKomi Udmurt Rusyn Moksha Russian Kirghiz all
PaliBihari Sanskrit Marathi Nepali Nepal Bhasa Hindi all
Eastern MariKirghiz Western Mari Tatar Udmurt Kazakh Karachay-Balkar all
KomiKomi-Permyak Udmurt Moksha Rusyn Kirghiz Russian all
Anglo-SaxonPennsylvania German Luxembourgish English Simple English Bavarian North Frisian all
LadinoChavacano Spanish Mirandese Esperanto Occitan Asturian all
BihariMarathi Nepali Hindi Pali Nepal Bhasa Sanskrit all
SardinianLatin Extremaduran Mirandese Occitan Romansh Aragonese all
NovialInterlingua Scots Interlingue English Simple English Afrikaans all
Classical ChineseCantonese Gan Wu Zhuang Aragonese Aromanian all
RipuarianLow Saxon Luxembourgish Palatinate Dutch Saterland Frisian German all
ChavacanoSpanish Asturian Mirandese Aragonese Galician Occitan all
SomaliHausa Oromo Banjar Swahili Pangasian Aymara all
HakkaMin Nan Vietnamese Zhuang Cree Siswati Bavarian all
NavajoIrish Uzbek Scots Gaelic Venda Northern Sami Yoruba all
CornishManx Haitian Igbo Romani Simple English Welsh all
ArpitanOccitan Asturian Spanish Chavacano Mirandese Aragonese all
Saterland FrisianLuxembourgish Low Saxon West Flemsih Ripuarian Dutch Low Saxon North Frisian all
SilesianLower Sorbian Upper Sorbian Polish Slovak Croatian Serbocroatian all
ExtremaduranAsturian Mirandese Occitan Catalan Romansh Interlingue all
OriyaSimple English English Scots Novial Interlingue Italian all
InterlingueFriulian Interlingua Italian Catalan Novial Romanian all
PicardFrench Interlingue Norman Friulian Walloon Interlingua all
KalmykMongolian Buryat Sakha Kirghiz Karachay-Balkar Tatar all
Hawai'ianTsonga Swahili Kongo Tongan Samoan Oromo all
MingrelianGeorgian Volapük Wu Ido Norman Tarantino all
KinyarwandaKirundi Shona Tsonga Zulu Swahili Wolof all
LingalaKongo Wolof Bambara Pangasian Bislama Zulu all
North FrisianSwedish Bavarian Novial Frisian Nynorsk Low Saxon all
Pennsylvania GermanGerman Luxembourgish Palatinate Alemannic Low Saxon English all
PalatinatePennsylvania German Alemannic Bavarian Ripuarian Luxembourgish German all
AymaraQuechua Hausa Swahili Banjar Oromo Somali all
Karachay-BalkarKirghiz Tatar Avar Sakha Kazakh Kalmyk all
TonganHawai'ian Maori Zulu Romani Samoan Siswati all
AcehneseSundanese Banyumasan Javanese Malay Indonesian Waray-Waray all
Emilian-RomagnolRomansh Piedmontese Lombard Corsican Friulian Occitan all
Crimean TatarTurkish Gagauz Karakalpak Zazaki Kabyle Romani all
ChechenLak Avar Karachay-Balkar Abkhazian Belarusian Belarusian all
GuaraniRomani Fiji Hindi Breton Igbo Papiamentu Aromanian all
ErzyaMoksha Russian Bulgarian Udmurt Macedonian Ukrainian all
ZealandicWest Flemsih Limburgish Dutch Low Saxon Dutch Afrikaans Frisian all
AramaicIdo Volapük Norman Nauruan Tarantino Interlingue all
GreenlandicInupiak Tetum Sundanese Maltese Corsican Quechua all
PapiamentuTetum Igbo Romani Sranan Aragonese Sundanese all
GagauzTurkish Crimean Tatar Karakalpak Turkmen Indonesian Malay all
BanjarHausa Malay Indonesian Javanese Banyumasan Pangasian all
LakAvar Chechen Karachay-Balkar Sakha Tajik Kirghiz all
Tok PisinBislama Siswati Zulu Haitian Esperanto Norfolk all
WolofKongo Zulu Tsonga Igbo Bambara Oromo all
LojbanItalian Norfolk Extremaduran Ligurian Neapolitan Esperanto all
AssameseBengali Bishnupriya Manipuri English Simple English Scots Novial all
MokshaErzya Russian Bulgarian Udmurt Macedonian Komi-Permyak all
AvarLak Chechen Karachay-Balkar Tajik Kirghiz Sakha all
KabyleIndonesian North Frisian Sranan Malay Romansh Papiamentu all
Lower SorbianUpper Sorbian Silesian Polish Croatian Serbocroatian Bosnian all
TahitianMaori Scots Papiamentu Tetum Ligurian Venetian all
ShonaKirundi Tsonga Kinyarwanda Tetum Zulu Swahili all
SrananPapiamentu Igbo Tetum Nauruan Norfolk North Frisian all
LaotianEnglish Simple English Scots Interlingue Norman Novial all
AbkhazianTatar Chechen Lak Karachay-Balkar Sakha Tajik all
IgboPapiamentu Sranan Nauruan Tetum Siswati Bavarian all
NauruanIgbo Sranan Papiamentu Bislama Akan Esperanto all
TetumPapiamentu Sundanese Romani Igbo Indonesian Fiji Hindi all
KongoBambara Tsonga Pangasian Wolof Indonesian Malay all
MirandeseChavacano Spanish Asturian Occitan Aragonese Galician all
KarakalpakCrimean Tatar Gagauz Turkish Norfolk Indonesian Tetum all
LatgalianLatvian Lithuanian Estonian Sardinian Croatian Serbocroatian all
Northern SothoSetswana Ewe Ladino Breton Bislama Samoan all
RomaniFiji Hindi Tetum Papiamentu Esperanto Ladino Igbo all
Old Church SlavonicMoksha Bulgarian Tajik Russian Udmurt Ukrainian all
KarbadianBuryat Sakha Mongolian Udmurt Karachay-Balkar Kirghiz all
SetswanaNorthern Sotho Bislama Esperanto Ladino Samoan Siswati all
SamoanOromo Ido Tetum Wolof Setswana Fiji Hindi all
MoldavianSerbian Bulgarian Russian Macedonian Udmurt Kirghiz all
SindhiPashto Egyptian Arabic Arabic Gilaki Mazandarani Farsi all
BislamaTok Pisin Siswati Esperanto Zulu Italian Igbo all
BambaraKongo Pangasian Javanese Banyumasan Indonesian Akan all
InupiakGreenlandic Quechua Sicilian Corsican Aymara Kinyarwanda all
SiswatiZulu Igbo Norfolk Novial Bislama Tetum all
InuktitutGreenlandic Inupiak Corsican Sicilian Maltese Tetum all
NorfolkInterlingue Papiamentu Tetum Scots Novial Siswati all
ZhuangBavarian Pennsylvania German Palatinate Igbo Luxembourgish Alemannic all
CherokeeInterlingue English Scots Simple English Friulian Novial all
PonticGreek Norman Tarantino Neapolitan Lojban Norfolk all
GothicTetum Oromo Sundanese Greenlandic Banyumasan Indonesian all
Min DongHakka Min Nan Vietnamese Kapampangan Zhuang Javanese all
EweNorthern Sotho Setswana Breton Ladino Siswati Afrikaans all
HausaBanjar Somali Oromo Swahili Aymara Pangasian all
ZuluSiswati Tsonga Tetum Igbo Wolof Shona all
TigrinyaAmharic Norman Picard Neapolitan English Simple English all
KashmiriUrdu Western Panjabi Gilaki Farsi Mazandarani Pashto all
BuryatMongolian Sakha Kalmyk Kirghiz Karachay-Balkar Chechen all
OromoIndonesian Malay Sundanese Fiji Hindi Pangasian Ilokano all
VendaTsonga Shona Scots Gaelic Waray-Waray Acehnese Zulu all
TsongaSwahili Zulu Shona Kongo Oromo Tetum all
SangroHaitian Kurdish Cornish Setswana Igbo Bislama all
KirundiKinyarwanda Shona Tsonga Zulu Tetum Igbo all
CreeSwahili Tsonga Zulu Shona Siswati Norfolk all
DzongkhaTibetan Ido Bislama Esperanto Interlingue Siswati all
AkanBambara Igbo Nauruan Waray-Waray Banyumasan Cebuano all


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Created November 4 2012, Denny Vrandečić.