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How easy is Tajik for Russian speakers?

Going from Russian to Tajik (ะขะพาทะธะบำฃ) has a composite linguistic distance of 66% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

66% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
18%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
24%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
40%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Cyrillic โ†’ Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship
40%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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