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How easy is Cantonese for Lao speakers?

Going from Lao to Cantonese (粡θͺž) has a composite linguistic distance of 64% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

64% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) β€” ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
100%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Lao β†’ Chinese

Genealogical kinship
0%

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