Indo-European Languages
The table below shows some lexical similarity values for pairs of selected Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages, as collected and published by Ethnologue.
| Language 1 ↓ |
Lexical similarity coefficients | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalan | English | French | German | Italian | Portuguese | Romanian | Romansh | Russian | Sardinian | Spanish | ||
| cat | Catalan | 1 | - | - | - | 0.87 | 0.85 | 0.73 | 0.76 | - | 0.75 | 0.85 |
| eng | English | - | 1 | 0.27 | 0.60 | - | - | - | - | 0.24 | - | - |
| fra | French | - | 0.27 | 1 | 0.29 | 0.89 | 0.75 | 0.75 | 0.78 | - | 0.80 | 0.75 |
| deu | German | - | 0.60 | 0.29 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ita | Italian | 0.87 | - | 0.89 | - | 1 | - | 0.77 | 0.78 | - | 0.85 | 0.82 |
| por | Portuguese | 0.85 | - | 0.75 | - | - | 1 | 0.72 | 0.74 | - | - | 0.89 |
| ron | Romanian | 0.73 | - | 0.75 | - | 0.77 | 0.72 | 1 | 0.72 | - | - | 0.71 |
| roh | Romansh | 0.76 | - | 0.78 | - | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.72 | 1 | - | 0.74 | 0.74 |
| rus | Russian | - | 0.24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| srd | Sardinian | 0.75 | - | 0.80 | - | 0.85 | - | - | 0.74 | - | 1 | 0.76 |
| spa | Spanish | 0.85 | - | 0.75 | - | 0.82 | 0.89 | 0.71 | 0.74 | - | 0.76 | 1 |
| Catalan | English | French | German | Italian | Portuguese | Romanian | Romansh | Russian | Sardinian | Spanish | ||
| Language 2 → | cat | eng | fra | deu | ita | por | ron | roh | rus | srd | spa | |
Notes:
- Language codes are from standard ISO 639-3.
- Ethnologue does not specify for which Sardinian variety the lexical similarity was calculated.
- "-" denotes that comparison data are not available.
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