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How easy is Telugu for Finnish speakers?

Going from Finnish to Telugu (తెలుగు) has a composite linguistic distance of 90% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

90% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

35%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Latin → Telugu

Genealogical kinship

Uralic ↔ Dravidian

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Other easy languages for Finnish speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Finnish:

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Estonian

34% distance
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Hungarian

52% distance
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Northern Sami

55% distance
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Turkmen

72% distance
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Turkish

74% distance

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