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How easy is Telugu for Kannada speakers?

Going from Kannada to Telugu (తెలుగు) has a composite linguistic distance of 38% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

38% 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
100%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Kannada → Telugu

Genealogical kinship
40%

Dravidian ↔ Dravidian

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