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How easy is Tajik for Persian (Farsi) speakers?

Going from Persian (Farsi) to Tajik (ะขะพาทะธะบำฃ) has a composite linguistic distance of 17% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

17% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
85%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
80%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Arabic โ†’ Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship
100%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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Curated cognates between Persian (Farsi) and Tajik

Word pairs that share a common etymological root โ€” instantly recognisable across both languages:

Other easy languages for Persian (Farsi) speakers

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

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