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How easy is Indonesian for Javanese speakers?

Going from Javanese to Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) has a composite linguistic distance of 36% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

36% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
50%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin/Javanese → Latin

Genealogical kinship
70%

Austronesian ↔ Austronesian

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