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How easy is Indonesian for Thai speakers?

Going from Thai to Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) has a composite linguistic distance of 81% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

81% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
70%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Thai → Latin

Genealogical kinship
0%

Tai-Kadai ↔ Austronesian

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