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How easy is Hausa for Indonesian speakers?

Going from Indonesian to Hausa (Hausa) has a composite linguistic distance of 79% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

79% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

64%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

40%

Latin → Latin/Arabic

Genealogical kinship

Austronesian ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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Other easy languages for Indonesian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Indonesian:

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Malay

9% distance
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Javanese

36% distance
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Tagalog

38% distance
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Swahili

64% distance
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Guarani

64% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

A quick 3-question check between Indonesian and Hausa. No signup.