Going from Gujarati to Zulu (isiZulu) has a composite linguistic distance of 85% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Gujarati → Latin
Indo-European ↔ Niger-Congo
The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Gujarati:
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