🇵🇱 → 🇹🇯

How easy is Tajik for Polish speakers?

Going from Polish to Tajik (Тоҷикӣ) 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

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

22%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Polish speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Polish:

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Slovak

17% distance
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Czech

18% distance
🇭🇷

Croatian/Serbian

37% distance
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Belarusian

41% distance
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Slovenian

43% distance

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