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How easy is Telugu for Marathi speakers?

Going from Marathi to Telugu (తెలుగు) has a composite linguistic distance of 67% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

67% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
67%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Devanagari → Telugu

Genealogical kinship
0%

Indo-European ↔ Dravidian

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