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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Persian (Farsi) speakers?

Going from Persian (Farsi) to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 70% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

70% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
18%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
41%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
38%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Arabic → Arabic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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