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How easy is Hindi for Bengali speakers?

Going from Bengali to Hindi (เคนเคฟเคจเฅเคฆเฅ€) has a composite linguistic distance of 47% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

47% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
50%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
55%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
75%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Bengali โ†’ Devanagari

Genealogical kinship
70%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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