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How easy is Croatian/Serbian for Norwegian speakers?

Going from Norwegian to Croatian/Serbian (Hrvatski) has a composite linguistic distance of 72% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

72% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

39%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

40%

Latin → Latin/Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Norwegian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Norwegian:

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Swedish

9% distance
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Danish

12% distance
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Faroese

31% distance
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Icelandic

32% distance
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Dutch

36% distance

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