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How easy is Amharic for Russian speakers?

Going from Russian to Amharic (αŠ αˆ›αˆ­αŠ›) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

83% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
56%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

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Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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