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How easy is Urdu for Persian (Farsi) speakers?

Going from Persian (Farsi) to Urdu (اردو) has a composite linguistic distance of 55% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

55% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
35%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
55%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Arabic → Arabic

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Curated cognates between Persian (Farsi) and Urdu

Word pairs that share a common etymological root — instantly recognisable across both languages:

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