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How easy is Urdu for Croatian/Serbian speakers?

Going from Croatian/Serbian to Urdu (اردو) has a composite linguistic distance of 70% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

70% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
67%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
17%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin/Cyrillic → Arabic

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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