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How easy is Tajik for Pashto speakers?

Going from Pashto to Tajik (ะขะพาทะธะบำฃ) has a composite linguistic distance of 57% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

57% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
51%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
60%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Arabic โ†’ Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship
70%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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