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How easy is Ukrainian for Croatian/Serbian speakers?

Going from Croatian/Serbian to Ukrainian (Українська) has a composite linguistic distance of 45% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

45% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

50%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin/Cyrillic → Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship

70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Croatian/Serbian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Croatian/Serbian:

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Slovenian

20% distance
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Czech

34% distance
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Russian

37% distance
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Polish

37% distance
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Macedonian

38% distance

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