Going from Arabic (MSA) to Hindi (เคนเคฟเคจเฅเคฆเฅ) has a composite linguistic distance of 81% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Arabic โ Devanagari
Afro-Asiatic โ Indo-European
The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Arabic (MSA):
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