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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Japanese speakers?

Going from Japanese to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 92% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

92% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
30%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Japanese → Arabic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Japonic ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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