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How easy is Kurdish for Tajik speakers?

Going from Tajik to Kurdish (Kurdî) has a composite linguistic distance of 38% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

38% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
55%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
60%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
80%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Cyrillic → Latin/Arabic

Genealogical kinship
100%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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