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How easy is Tigrinya for Hausa speakers?

Going from Hausa to Tigrinya (ትግርኛ) has a composite linguistic distance of 66% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

66% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
83%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin/Arabic → Ge'ez

Genealogical kinship
40%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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