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How easy is Amharic for Maltese speakers?

Going from Maltese to Amharic (አማርኛ) has a composite linguistic distance of 56% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

56% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

71%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

17%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Ge'ez

Genealogical kinship

70%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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Other easy languages for Maltese speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Maltese:

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Arabic (MSA)

39% distance
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Italian

51% distance
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Tigrinya

53% distance
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Hebrew

54% distance
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Spanish

59% distance

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