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How easy is Turkish for Kurdish speakers?

Going from Kurdish to Turkish (Tรผrkรงe) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

83% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
39%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin/Arabic โ†’ Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European โ†” Turkic

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