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How easy is Bengali for Tibetan speakers?

Going from Tibetan to Bengali (বাংলা) has a composite linguistic distance of 74% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

74% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
90%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Tibetan β†’ Bengali

Genealogical kinship
0%

Sino-Tibetan ↔ Indo-European

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