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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Catalan speakers?

Going from Catalan to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 82% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

82% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

69%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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Other easy languages for Catalan speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Catalan:

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Occitan

13% distance
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Portuguese

14% distance
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Spanish

15% distance
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Italian

15% distance
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French

17% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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