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How easy is Afrikaans for Urdu speakers?

Going from Urdu to Afrikaans (Afrikaans) has a composite linguistic distance of 78% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

78% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

43%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Arabic → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Urdu speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Urdu:

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Hindi

12% distance
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Punjabi

32% distance
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Gujarati

44% distance
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Nepali

45% distance
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Bengali

47% distance

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