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How easy is Sinhala for Gujarati speakers?

Going from Gujarati to Sinhala (เทƒเท’เถ‚เท„เถฝ) has a composite linguistic distance of 56% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

56% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
58%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
50%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Gujarati โ†’ Sinhala

Genealogical kinship
70%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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