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How easy is Persian (Farsi) for Pashto speakers?

Going from Pashto to Persian (Farsi) (فارسی) has a composite linguistic distance of 48% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

48% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
51%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
50%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Arabic → Arabic

Genealogical kinship
70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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