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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Croatian/Serbian speakers?

Going from Croatian/Serbian to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 84% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

84% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
56%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin/Cyrillic → Arabic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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