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How easy is Kannada for Tamil speakers?

Going from Tamil to Kannada (เฒ•เฒจเณเฒจเฒก) has a composite linguistic distance of 36% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

36% distance FSI Cat III โ€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
45%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
98%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Tamil โ†’ Kannada

Genealogical kinship
100%

Dravidian โ†” Dravidian

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