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How easy is Catalan for Sicilian speakers?

Going from Sicilian to Catalan (Catalร ) has a composite linguistic distance of 26% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

26% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) โ€” 600โ€“750 hours
Lexical similarity
55%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin โ†’ Latin

Genealogical kinship
100%

Indo-European โ†” Indo-European

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