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How easy is Gujarati for Nepali speakers?

Going from Nepali to Gujarati (ગુજરાતી) has a composite linguistic distance of 44% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

44% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

86%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

100%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Devanagari → Gujarati

Genealogical kinship

70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Nepali speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Nepali:

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Hindi

25% distance
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Marathi

37% distance
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Urdu

45% distance
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Punjabi

45% distance
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Bengali

47% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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