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How easy is Khmer for Lao speakers?

Going from Lao to Khmer (αž—αžΆαžŸαžΆαžαŸ’αž˜αŸ‚αžš) has a composite linguistic distance of 71% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

71% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Lao β†’ Khmer

Genealogical kinship
0%

Tai-Kadai ↔ Austroasiatic

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