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How easy is Sinhala for Burmese speakers?

Going from Burmese to Sinhala (ΰ·ƒΰ·’ΰΆ‚ΰ·„ΰΆ½) has a composite linguistic distance of 82% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

82% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
58%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Burmese β†’ Sinhala

Genealogical kinship
0%

Sino-Tibetan ↔ Indo-European

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