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How easy is Luxembourgish for Dutch speakers?

Going from Dutch to Luxembourgish (LΓ«tzebuergesch) has a composite linguistic distance of 31% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

31% distance FSI Cat II β€” ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
55%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
72%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
14%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

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Genealogical kinship
100%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Dutch speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Dutch:

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