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How easy is Telugu for Thai speakers?

Going from Thai to Telugu (తెలుగు) has a composite linguistic distance of 88% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

88% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

33%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

25%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Thai → Telugu

Genealogical kinship

Tai-Kadai ↔ Dravidian

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Other easy languages for Thai speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Thai:

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Lao

22% distance
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Khmer

65% distance
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Cantonese

67% distance
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Mandarin Chinese

69% distance
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Vietnamese

70% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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