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How easy is Yoruba for Hausa speakers?

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

81% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

47%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

40%

Latin/Arabic → Latin

Genealogical kinship

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Niger-Congo

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Other easy languages for Hausa speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Hausa:

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Maltese

62% distance
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Hebrew

64% distance
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Tigrinya

66% distance
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Somali

68% distance
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Arabic (MSA)

69% distance

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