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How easy is Telugu for Tamil speakers?

Going from Tamil to Telugu (తెలుగు) has a composite linguistic distance of 50% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

50% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

40%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Tamil → Telugu

Genealogical kinship

40%

Dravidian ↔ Dravidian

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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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Marathi

71% distance
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Japanese

76% distance
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Nepali

78% distance

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