Going from Kannada to Tamil (เฎคเฎฎเฎฟเฎดเฏ) has a composite linguistic distance of 36% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Kannada โ Tamil
Dravidian โ Dravidian
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