Lexical Similarity - Indo-European Languages

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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