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How easy is Hungarian for Turkmen speakers?

Going from Turkmen to Hungarian (Magyar) has a composite linguistic distance of 67% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

67% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

58%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

75%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

Turkic ↔ Uralic

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Other easy languages for Turkmen speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Turkmen:

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Azerbaijani

11% distance
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Turkish

13% distance
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Kazakh

41% distance
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Uzbek

48% distance
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Tatar

60% distance

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