🇰🇿 → 🇹🇲

How easy is Turkmen for Kazakh speakers?

Going from Kazakh to Turkmen (Türkmen) has a composite linguistic distance of 41% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

41% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

55%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

98%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

40%

Cyrillic/Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Turkic ↔ Turkic

Open the interactive comparison →

Other easy languages for Kazakh speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Kazakh:

🇰🇬

Kyrgyz

15% distance
🇦🇿

Azerbaijani

41% distance
🇷🇺

Tatar

41% distance
🇹🇷

Turkish

43% distance
🇺🇿

Uzbek

45% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

A quick 3-question check between Kazakh and Turkmen. No signup.