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How easy is Thai for Khmer speakers?

Going from Khmer to Thai (ΰΈ ΰΈ²ΰΈ©ΰΈ²ΰΉ„ΰΈ—ΰΈ’) has a composite linguistic distance of 65% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

65% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
15%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
50%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Khmer β†’ Thai

Genealogical kinship
0%

Austroasiatic ↔ Tai-Kadai

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