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How easy is Estonian for Finnish speakers?

Going from Finnish to Estonian (Eesti) has a composite linguistic distance of 34% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

34% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
45%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
81%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
100%

Uralic ↔ Uralic

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