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How easy is Lithuanian for Latvian speakers?

Going from Latvian to Lithuanian (Lietuvių) has a composite linguistic distance of 15% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

15% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
65%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
75%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
100%

Latin → Latin

Genealogical kinship
100%

Indo-European ↔ Indo-European

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