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How easy is Vietnamese for Punjabi speakers?

Going from Punjabi to Vietnamese (Tiแบฟng Viแป‡t) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

83% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
56%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
17%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Gurmukhi/Arabic โ†’ Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European โ†” Austroasiatic

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