How easy is Marathi for Indonesian speakers?

Going from Indonesian to Marathi (मराठी) has a composite linguistic distance of 87% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

Lexical similarity

3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

37%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

0%

Latin → Devanagari

Genealogical kinship

0%

Austronesian ↔ Indo-European

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