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How easy is Uzbek for German speakers?

Going from German to Uzbek (O'zbek) has a composite linguistic distance of 84% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

84% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

38%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

40%

Latin → Latin/Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Turkic

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Other easy languages for German speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from German:

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Luxembourgish

9% distance
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Dutch

22% distance
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Yiddish

26% distance
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Afrikaans

32% distance
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English

34% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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