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How easy is Mandarin Chinese for Tibetan speakers?

Going from Tibetan to Mandarin Chinese (普通话) has a composite linguistic distance of 71% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

71% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
43%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
67%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Tibetan → Chinese

Genealogical kinship
40%

Sino-Tibetan ↔ Sino-Tibetan

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