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How easy is Hausa for Javanese speakers?

Going from Javanese 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
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
64%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin/Javanese → Latin/Arabic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Austronesian ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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