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How easy is Punjabi for Slovenian speakers?

Going from Slovenian to Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) has a composite linguistic distance of 70% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

70% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

69%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

14%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Gurmukhi/Arabic

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Slovenian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Slovenian:

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Croatian/Serbian

20% distance
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Slovak

39% distance
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Czech

40% distance
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Bulgarian

40% distance
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Russian

42% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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