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How easy is Burmese for Javanese speakers?

Going from Javanese to Burmese (แ€™แ€ผแ€”แ€บแ€™แ€ฌแ€˜แ€ฌแ€žแ€ฌ) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

83% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
63%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin/Javanese โ†’ Burmese

Genealogical kinship
0%

Austronesian โ†” Sino-Tibetan

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Other easy languages for Javanese speakers

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