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How easy is Urdu for Welsh speakers?

Going from Welsh to Urdu (اردو) has a composite linguistic distance of 70% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

70% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

66%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

17%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Welsh speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Welsh:

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Irish

43% distance
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Sardinian

57% distance
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Spanish

58% distance
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Galician

58% distance
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Occitan

58% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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