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How easy is Welsh for Lao speakers?

Going from Lao to Welsh (Cymraeg) has a composite linguistic distance of 87% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

87% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

47%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Lao → Latin

Genealogical kinship

Tai-Kadai ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Lao speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Lao:

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Thai

22% distance
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Cantonese

64% distance
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Mandarin Chinese

67% distance
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Vietnamese

71% distance
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Khmer

71% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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