Going from Kannada to Burmese (แแผแแบแแฌแแฌแแฌ) has a composite linguistic distance of 81% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Kannada โ Burmese
Dravidian โ Sino-Tibetan
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