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How easy is Kazakh for Turkmen speakers?

Going from Turkmen to Kazakh (Қазақша) has a composite linguistic distance of 41% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

41% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

55%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

98%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

40%

Latin → Cyrillic/Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Turkic ↔ Turkic

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Other easy languages for Turkmen speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Turkmen:

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Azerbaijani

11% distance
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Turkish

13% distance
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Uzbek

48% distance
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Tatar

60% distance
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Kyrgyz

61% distance

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