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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Quechua speakers?

Going from Quechua to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 91% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

91% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

26%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

13%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

Quechuan ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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Other easy languages for Quechua speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Quechua:

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Basque

66% distance
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Estonian

70% distance
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Northern Sami

70% distance
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Swahili

70% distance
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Zulu

70% distance

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