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How easy is Uzbek for Japanese speakers?

Going from Japanese to Uzbek (O'zbek) 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
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
80%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Japanese → Latin/Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Japonic ↔ Turkic

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