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How easy is Thai for Japanese speakers?

Going from Japanese to Thai (เธ เธฒเธฉเธฒเน„เธ—เธข) has a composite linguistic distance of 84% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

84% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
50%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Japanese โ†’ Thai

Genealogical kinship
0%

Japonic โ†” Tai-Kadai

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