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How easy is Urdu for Arabic (MSA) speakers?

Going from Arabic (MSA) to Urdu (اردو) has a composite linguistic distance of 65% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

65% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
20%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
68%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
11%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Arabic → Arabic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Indo-European

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