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How easy is Swahili for Quechua speakers?

Going from Quechua to Swahili (Kiswahili) has a composite linguistic distance of 70% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

70% distance FSI Cat II β€” ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
67%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

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Genealogical kinship
0%

Quechuan ↔ Niger-Congo

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Other easy languages for Quechua speakers

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