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How easy is Norwegian for Croatian/Serbian speakers?

Going from Croatian/Serbian to Norwegian (Norsk) has a composite linguistic distance of 72% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

72% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
39%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin/Cyrillic → Latin

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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