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How easy is Icelandic for Czech speakers?

Going from Czech to Icelandic (Íslenska) has a composite linguistic distance of 61% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

61% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

64%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

14%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Czech speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Czech:

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Slovak

6% distance
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Polish

18% distance
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Croatian/Serbian

34% distance
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Slovenian

40% distance
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Ukrainian

43% distance

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