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How easy is Javanese for Burmese speakers?

Going from Burmese to Javanese (Basa Jawa) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

83% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
63%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Burmese → Latin/Javanese

Genealogical kinship
0%

Sino-Tibetan ↔ Austronesian

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