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How easy is Armenian for Tamil speakers?

Going from Tamil to Armenian (Հայերեն) has a composite linguistic distance of 86% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

86% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

51%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Tamil → Armenian

Genealogical kinship

Dravidian ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Tamil speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Tamil:

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Malayalam

21% distance
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Kannada

36% distance
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Telugu

50% distance
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Marathi

71% distance
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Japanese

76% distance

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