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How easy is Telugu for Somali speakers?

Going from Somali to Telugu (తెలుగు) has a composite linguistic distance of 87% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

87% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
39%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
20%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin → Telugu

Genealogical kinship
0%

Afro-Asiatic ↔ Dravidian

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