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How easy is Amharic for Irish speakers?

Going from Irish to Amharic (አማርኛ) has a composite linguistic distance of 79% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

79% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
71%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin → Ge'ez

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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