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How easy is Urdu for English speakers?

Going from English to Urdu (اردو) has a composite linguistic distance of 77% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

77% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
12%

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%

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