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How easy is Nepali for Russian speakers?

Going from Russian to Nepali (नेपाली) has a composite linguistic distance of 67% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

67% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

78%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Cyrillic → Devanagari

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Russian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Russian:

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Belarusian

11% distance
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Ukrainian

19% distance
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Macedonian

37% distance
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Croatian/Serbian

37% distance
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Bulgarian

38% distance

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