Going from English to Nepali (ΰ€¨ΰ₯ΰ€ͺΰ€Ύΰ€²ΰ₯) has a composite linguistic distance of 80% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Latin β Devanagari
Indo-European β Indo-European
The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from English:
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