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How easy is Kyrgyz for Uyghur speakers?

Going from Uyghur to Kyrgyz (Кыргызча) has a composite linguistic distance of 58% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

58% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

98%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

60%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Arabic → Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship

40%

Turkic ↔ Turkic

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Other easy languages for Uyghur speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Uyghur:

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Uzbek

29% distance
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Turkish

48% distance
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Azerbaijani

48% distance
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Kazakh

58% distance
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Turkmen

62% distance

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