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How easy is Urdu for Uyghur speakers?

Going from Uyghur to Urdu (اردو) has a composite linguistic distance of 80% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

80% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

34%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

100%

Arabic → Arabic

Genealogical kinship

Turkic ↔ Indo-European

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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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Kyrgyz

58% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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