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How easy is Turkish for Arabic (MSA) speakers?

Going from Arabic (MSA) to Turkish (Türkçe) has a composite linguistic distance of 90% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

90% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
12%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
24%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Arabic → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Turkic

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