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How easy is Hausa for Sicilian speakers?

Going from Sicilian to Hausa (Hausa) has a composite linguistic distance of 72% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

72% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
92%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin → Latin/Arabic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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