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How easy is Bengali for Tajik speakers?

Going from Tajik to Bengali (বাংলা) 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

67%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

17%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Cyrillic → Bengali

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Tajik speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Tajik:

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Persian (Farsi)

17% distance
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Kurdish

38% distance
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Pashto

57% distance
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Bulgarian

62% distance
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Macedonian

62% distance

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