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How easy is Indonesian for Korean speakers?

Going from Korean to Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) has a composite linguistic distance of 85% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

85% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
55%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Hangul → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Koreanic ↔ Austronesian

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