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How easy is Punjabi for English speakers?

Going from English to Punjabi (เจชเฉฐเจœเจพเจฌเฉ€) has a composite linguistic distance of 78% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

78% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
43%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

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Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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