Going from Urdu to Punjabi (เจชเฉฐเจเจพเจฌเฉ) has a composite linguistic distance of 32% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Arabic โ Gurmukhi/Arabic
Indo-European โ Indo-European
The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Urdu:
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