Going from Kazakh to Lao (เบเบฒเบชเบฒเบฅเบฒเบง) has a composite linguistic distance of 93% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Cyrillic/Latin โ Lao
Turkic โ Tai-Kadai
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