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How easy is Vietnamese for Tigrinya speakers?

Going from Tigrinya to Vietnamese (Tiแบฟng Viแป‡t) has a composite linguistic distance of 85% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

85% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
47%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

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Genealogical kinship
0%

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