Going from Lao to Kazakh (าะฐะทะฐาัะฐ) has a composite linguistic distance of 93% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Lao โ Cyrillic/Latin
Tai-Kadai โ Turkic
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