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How easy is Tamil for Mongolian speakers?

Going from Mongolian to Tamil (தமிழ்) has a composite linguistic distance of 82% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

82% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

53%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Cyrillic → Tamil

Genealogical kinship

Mongolic ↔ Dravidian

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Other easy languages for Mongolian speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Mongolian:

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Kyrgyz

62% distance
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Tatar

62% distance
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Kazakh

68% distance
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Turkmen

70% distance
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Turkish

72% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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