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How easy is Punjabi for Persian (Farsi) speakers?

Going from Persian (Farsi) to Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) has a composite linguistic distance of 70% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

70% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

55%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

40%

Arabic → Gurmukhi/Arabic

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Persian (Farsi) speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Persian (Farsi):

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Tajik

17% distance
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Kurdish

47% distance
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Pashto

48% distance
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Urdu

55% distance
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Uyghur

63% distance

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