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How easy is Punjabi for Hindi speakers?

Going from Hindi to Punjabi (เจชเฉฐเจœเจพเจฌเฉ€) has a composite linguistic distance of 36% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

36% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
55%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
60%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Devanagari โ†’ Gurmukhi/Arabic

Genealogical kinship
70%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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