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How easy is Cantonese for Maltese speakers?

Going from Maltese to Cantonese (粵語) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

83% distance FSI Cat IV (Hardest) — ~2,200 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
64%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin → Chinese

Genealogical kinship
0%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Sino-Tibetan

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