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How easy is Yoruba for Tibetan speakers?

Going from Tibetan to Yoruba (Yorùbá) 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
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
26%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Tibetan → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Sino-Tibetan ↔ Niger-Congo

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