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How easy is Punjabi for Hausa speakers?

Going from Hausa to Punjabi (เจชเฉฐเจœเจพเจฌเฉ€) has a composite linguistic distance of 81% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

81% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
66%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
17%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin/Arabic โ†’ Gurmukhi/Arabic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Afro-Asiatic โ†” Indo-European

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