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How easy is Russian for Northern Sami speakers?

Going from Northern Sami to Russian (ะ ัƒััะบะธะน) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

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

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
63%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin โ†’ Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Uralic โ†” Indo-European

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