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How easy is Tibetan for Lao speakers?

Going from Lao to Tibetan (เฝ–เฝผเฝ‘เผ‹เฝฆเพเฝ‘เผ) has a composite linguistic distance of 78% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

78% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
43%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
100%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Lao โ†’ Tibetan

Genealogical kinship
0%

Tai-Kadai โ†” Sino-Tibetan

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