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How easy is Mongolian for Lao speakers?

Going from Lao to Mongolian (Монгол) has a composite linguistic distance of 94% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

94% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
20%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Lao β†’ Cyrillic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Tai-Kadai ↔ Mongolic

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