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How easy is Croatian/Serbian for Macedonian speakers?

Going from Macedonian to Croatian/Serbian (Hrvatski) has a composite linguistic distance of 38% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

38% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
65%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
50%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
67%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Cyrillic → Latin/Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship
100%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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