What’s the closest existing language to your native tongue?

What’s the closest existing language to your native tongue?

Some haplogroup autist will surely correct me, but I think karelia and ingrian are the closest. Along with meänkieli which is spoken in the border of sweden and finland although it's sometimes considered to be a dialect.

Catalan prob
We killed off every other language that was closer.

Extremaduran/Barranquian/Cahtúo/Cahtúö/Ehtremeñu/Extremeño/ISO 639-3ext
Ladino/Dzhudezmo/Haquetiya/Judeo Spanish/Judeo-Espagnol/Judezmo/Sefardi/Sephardic/Spanyol/ISO 639-3lad
Charapa Spanish/Castellano Sharapa/Jungle Spanish/Loreto-Ucayali Spanish/ISO 639-3spq
Palenquero/Palenque/ISO 639-3pln
Chavacano/Chabacano/Chabakano/Zamboangueño/ISO 639-3cbk

Scots is so close that it is sometimes considered a dialect of English. Otherwise it would be one of the Frisian languages.

What is "Yola"?

Also, I'm pretty sure the closest existing language to American English is Gullah.

Dutch, which is also the closest to yours

Belarussian ahahahaha

chilean

Excluding Scots, some weird villages of the coast of the North Sea

Ojibwe and algonquin especially. A bit of abenaki aswell

Tunisian

A highland language called Mường spoken just west of Hà Nội.

West Frisian, if not Scots.

Norwegian. Very easy to read, when spoken slowly and articulate also somewhat easy to understand.

Slovak

Lower sorbian (soon to be extinct thanks to g*rmans, unfortunately)

Catalan prob

Slovenian

Afrikaans

If you consider other German dialects as their own language then those, otherwise it's Dutch.

It's also quite interesting to hear someone speak Yiddish, because it uses a lot of vocabulary that's very similar to my dialect, but not to standard German.

Russian

Manchu

swedish