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How easy is Somali for Tigrinya speakers?

Going from Tigrinya to Somali (Soomaali) has a composite linguistic distance of 66% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

66% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
75%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
40%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Ge'ez → Latin

Genealogical kinship
40%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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