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How easy is Khmer for Javanese speakers?

Going from Javanese to Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ) has a composite linguistic distance of 81% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

81% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
70%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin/Javanese → Khmer

Genealogical kinship
0%

Austronesian ↔ Austroasiatic

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