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How easy is Yiddish for Greek speakers?

Going from Greek to Yiddish (ייִדיש) has a composite linguistic distance of 68% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

68% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
81%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Greek → Hebrew

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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