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How easy is Swahili for Lao speakers?

Going from Lao to Swahili (Kiswahili) has a composite linguistic distance of 78% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

78% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
83%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Lao → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Tai-Kadai ↔ Niger-Congo

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