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How easy is Maltese for Punjabi speakers?

Going from Punjabi to Maltese (Malti) has a composite linguistic distance of 82% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

82% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
66%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Gurmukhi/Arabic → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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