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How easy is Greek for Tibetan speakers?

Going from Tibetan to Greek (Ελληνικά) has a composite linguistic distance of 89% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

89% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

40%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Tibetan → Greek

Genealogical kinship

Sino-Tibetan ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Tibetan speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Tibetan:

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Burmese

51% distance
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Cantonese

68% distance
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Mandarin Chinese

71% distance
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Bengali

74% distance
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Sinhala

74% distance

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