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How easy is Greek for Albanian speakers?

Going from Albanian to Greek (Ελληνικά) has a composite linguistic distance of 60% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

60% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

15%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

85%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

60%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Greek

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Albanian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Albanian:

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Icelandic

54% distance
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Romanian

55% distance
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Italian

56% distance
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German

57% distance
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Faroese

57% distance

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