Going from Lao to Thai (ΰΈ ΰΈ²ΰΈ©ΰΈ²ΰΉΰΈΰΈ’) has a composite linguistic distance of 22% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Lao β Thai
Tai-Kadai β Tai-Kadai
The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Lao:
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