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How easy is Tajik for Tigrinya speakers?

Going from Tigrinya to Tajik (Тоҷикӣ) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

83% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

64%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Ge'ez → Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Tigrinya speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Tigrinya:

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Amharic

26% distance
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Hebrew

53% distance
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Maltese

53% distance
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Arabic (MSA)

56% distance
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Hausa

66% distance

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