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How easy is Urdu for Nepali speakers?

Going from Nepali to Urdu (اردو) has a composite linguistic distance of 45% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

45% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

92%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

75%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Devanagari → Arabic

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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Gujarati

44% distance
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Punjabi

45% distance
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Bengali

47% distance

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