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In linguistics, lexical similarity is a measure of the degree to which the word sets of two given languages are similar. A lexical similarity of 1 (or 100%) would mean a total overlap between vocabularies, whereas 0 means there are no common words. The lexical similarity is only an indication of the mutual intelligibility of the two languages, since the latter also depends on the degree of phonetical, morphological, and syntactical similarity. Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and someone who engages in this study is called a linguist or linguistician. ...
A pair of languages is said to be mutually intelligible if speakers of one language can readily understand the other language. ...
For example, English has a lexical similarity of 60% with German and 27% with French. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Indo-European languages
The table below shows some lexical similarity values for pairs of Indo-European languages. The Indo-European languages are a group of languages several hundred languages and dialects (specifically 443 according to the SIL estimate), including most of the major language families of Europe, as well as many languages of Asia, which belong to a single superfamily. ...
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code | Language 1
↓ | Lexical similarity coefficients | | cat | Catalan | 1 | | eng | English | - | 1 | | fra | French | - | 0.27 | 1 | | deu | German | - | 0.60 | 0.29 | 1 | | ita | Italian | 0.87 | - | 0.89 | - | 1 | | por | Portuguese | 0.85 | - | 0.75 | - | - | 1 | | ron | Romanian | 0.73 | - | 0.75 | - | 0.77 | 0.72 | 1 | | roh | Romansch | 0.76 | - | 0.78 | - | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.72 | 1 | | rus | Russian | - | 0.24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | | sard | Sardinian | 0.75 | - | 0.80 | - | 0.85 | - | - | 0.74 | - | 1 | | spa | Spanish | 0.85 | - | 0.75 | - | 0.82 | 0.89 | 0.71 | 0.74 | - | 0.76 | 1 | | Language 2 → | cat | eng | fra | deu | ita | por | ron | roh | rus | sard | spa | Language codes are from standard ISO/DIS 639-3, except for code sard (Sardinian), which is used only for the purpose of this article. Catalan (Català ) or Valencian (Valencià ) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra and co-official in several regions of Spain. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Romansh (also spelled Rumantsch, Romansch or Romanche) is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, Italian and French. ...
Sardinian (Sardu, Saldu) is the main language spoken in the island of Sardinia, Italy, and is one of the most conservative Romance languages. ...
ISO 639-3 is in process of development as an international standard for language codes. ...
Sardinian (Sardu, Saldu) is the main language spoken in the island of Sardinia, Italy, and is one of the most conservative Romance languages. ...
References - Ethnologue (lexical similarity values available at some of the individual language entries)
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