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How easy is Swedish for Telugu speakers?

Going from Telugu to Swedish (Svenska) has a composite linguistic distance of 91% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

91% distance FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

31%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Telugu → Latin

Genealogical kinship

Dravidian ↔ Indo-European

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Other easy languages for Telugu speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Telugu:

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Kannada

38% distance
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Tamil

50% distance
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Malayalam

50% distance
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Marathi

67% distance
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Nepali

74% distance

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