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How easy is Afrikaans for Hindi speakers?

Going from Hindi to Afrikaans (Afrikaans) has a composite linguistic distance of 78% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

78% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

43%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Devanagari → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Hindi speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Hindi:

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Urdu

12% distance
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Nepali

25% distance
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Marathi

33% distance
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Punjabi

36% distance
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Gujarati

36% distance

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