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How easy is Punjabi for Bengali speakers?

Going from Bengali to Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) has a composite linguistic distance of 54% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

54% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

55%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

75%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Bengali → Gurmukhi/Arabic

Genealogical kinship

70%

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

Think you can tell them apart?

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