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How easy is Swedish for Yiddish speakers?

Going from Yiddish to Swedish (Svenska) has a composite linguistic distance of 60% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

60% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours

Lexical similarity

30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

63%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Hebrew → Latin

Genealogical kinship

70%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Yiddish speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Yiddish:

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German

26% distance
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Luxembourgish

32% distance
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Dutch

39% distance
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Afrikaans

40% distance
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Icelandic

53% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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