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How easy is Javanese for Afrikaans speakers?

Going from Afrikaans to Javanese (Basa Jawa) has a composite linguistic distance of 77% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

77% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
70%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin → Latin/Javanese

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Austronesian

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