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How easy is Portuguese for Malayalam speakers?

Going from Malayalam to Portuguese (Português) has a composite linguistic distance of 91% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

91% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
33%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Malayalam → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Dravidian ↔ Indo-European

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