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How easy is Amharic for Yoruba speakers?

Going from Yoruba to Amharic (αŠ αˆ›αˆ­αŠ›) has a composite linguistic distance of 92% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

92% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
26%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

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Genealogical kinship
0%

Niger-Congo ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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