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How easy is Malay for Quechua speakers?

Going from Quechua to Malay (Bahasa Melayu) has a composite linguistic distance of 79% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

79% distance FSI Cat II β€” ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
53%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin β†’ Latin/Arabic

Genealogical kinship
0%

Quechuan ↔ Austronesian

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Other easy languages for Quechua speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Quechua:

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