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How easy is Czech for Punjabi speakers?

Going from Punjabi to Czech (Čeština) has a composite linguistic distance of 70% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

70% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

67%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

14%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Gurmukhi/Arabic → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Punjabi speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Punjabi:

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Urdu

32% distance
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Hindi

36% distance
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Gujarati

44% distance
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Nepali

45% distance
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Marathi

52% distance

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