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How easy is Uyghur for Estonian speakers?

Going from Estonian to Uyghur (ئۇيغۇرچە) has a composite linguistic distance of 90% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

90% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

37%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

Uralic ↔ Turkic

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Other easy languages for Estonian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Estonian:

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Finnish

34% distance
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Northern Sami

57% distance
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Hungarian

62% distance
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Swahili

69% distance
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Zulu

69% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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