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How easy is Bengali for Sinhala speakers?

Going from Sinhala to Bengali (বাংলা) has a composite linguistic distance of 54% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

54% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

20%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

78%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

50%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Sinhala → Bengali

Genealogical kinship

70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Sinhala speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Sinhala:

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Marathi

52% distance
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Nepali

54% distance
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Hindi

56% distance
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Urdu

56% distance
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Punjabi

56% distance

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