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How easy is Arabic (MSA) for Tigrinya speakers?

Going from Tigrinya to Arabic (MSA) (العربية) has a composite linguistic distance of 56% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

56% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
22%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
77%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
29%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Ge'ez → Arabic

Genealogical kinship
70%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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