Language similarity

Language Difficulty Ranking by The Foreign Service Institute (FSI)


Lexical similarity

Lang. code	Language 1 ↓	Lexical similarity coefficients
		English	French	German	Italian	Portuguese	Russian	Spanish
eng	English	1	0.27	0.60	-	-	0.24	-
fra	French	0.27	1	0.29	0.89	0.75	-	0.75
deu	German	0.60	0.29	1	-	-	-	-
ita	Italian	-	0.89	-	1	-	-	0.82
por	Portuguese	-	0.75	-	-	1	-	0.89
rus	Russian	0.24	-	-	-	-	1	-
spa	Spanish	-	0.75	-	0.82	0.89	-	1
		English	French	German	Italian	Portuguese	Russian	Spanish
Language 2 →		eng	fra	deu	ita	por	rus	spa

English - Lexical similarity: 60% with German, 27% with French, 24% with Russian.
Spanish - Lexical similarity: 89% with Portuguese [por], 82% with Italian [ita], 75% with French [fra]
French - Lexical similarity: 89% with Italian [ita], 75% with Portuguese [por] and Spanish[spa], 29% with German [deu], 27% with English [eng].

Language similarities - English - vocabulary 40% French, 35% Spanish, Italian
Spanish - 85% Portuguese, 80% French, Italian, 50% Latin
French - 85% Italian, 80% Spanish, Portuguese, 50% Latin

Latin - 60% Italiam, 55% Spanish, 50% French, Grammar

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