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How easy is Tagalog for Javanese speakers?

Going from Javanese to Tagalog (Filipino) has a composite linguistic distance of 51% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

51% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

69%

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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Other easy languages for Javanese speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Javanese:

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Indonesian

36% distance
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Malay

38% distance
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Guarani

70% distance
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Swahili

73% distance
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Zulu

73% distance

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