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How easy is Afrikaans for Bengali speakers?

Going from Bengali to Afrikaans (Afrikaans) has a composite linguistic distance of 76% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

76% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

50%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Bengali → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Bengali speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Bengali:

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Hindi

47% distance
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Urdu

47% distance
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Nepali

47% distance
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Marathi

50% distance
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Gujarati

53% distance

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