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How easy is Hausa for Yoruba speakers?

Going from Yoruba to Hausa (Hausa) has a composite linguistic distance of 81% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

81% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

47%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

40%

Latin → Latin/Arabic

Genealogical kinship

Niger-Congo ↔ Afro-Asiatic

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Other easy languages for Yoruba speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Yoruba:

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Zulu

61% distance
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Swahili

64% distance
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Vietnamese

66% distance
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Haitian Creole

68% distance
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Guarani

69% distance

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