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How easy is Hebrew for Kannada speakers?

Going from Kannada to Hebrew (עברית) has a composite linguistic distance of 91% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

91% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

33%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Kannada → Hebrew

Genealogical kinship

Dravidian ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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Other easy languages for Kannada speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Kannada:

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Malayalam

34% distance
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Tamil

36% distance
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Telugu

38% distance
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Marathi

68% distance
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Nepali

73% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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