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How easy is Bengali for Hindi speakers?

Going from Hindi to Bengali (বাংলা) has a composite linguistic distance of 47% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

47% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

50%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

55%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

75%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Devanagari → Bengali

Genealogical kinship

70%

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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