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How easy is Tagalog for Marathi speakers?

Going from Marathi to Tagalog (Filipino) has a composite linguistic distance of 86% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

86% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

43%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Devanagari → Latin

Genealogical kinship

Indo-European ↔ Austronesian

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Other easy languages for Marathi speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Marathi:

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Hindi

33% distance
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Nepali

37% distance
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Gujarati

48% distance
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Bengali

50% distance
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Urdu

52% distance

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