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How easy is Cantonese for Tibetan speakers?

Going from Tibetan to Cantonese (粡θͺž) has a composite linguistic distance of 68% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

68% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) β€” ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
43%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
100%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Tibetan β†’ Chinese

Genealogical kinship
40%

Sino-Tibetan ↔ Sino-Tibetan

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Other easy languages for Tibetan speakers

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