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How easy is Swahili for Albanian speakers?

Going from Albanian to Swahili (Kiswahili) has a composite linguistic distance of 76% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

76% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
43%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Niger-Congo

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