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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Bengali speakers?

Going from Bengali to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 86% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

86% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

45%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Bengali → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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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

Think you can tell them apart?

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