Going from Korean to Uzbek (O'zbek) has a composite linguistic distance of 78% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Hangul → Latin/Cyrillic
Koreanic ↔ Turkic
The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Korean:
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