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How easy is Lao for Turkmen speakers?

Going from Turkmen to Lao (ພາΰΊͺΰΊ²ΰΊ₯ΰΊ²ΰΊ§) has a composite linguistic distance of 93% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

93% distance FSI Cat III β€” ~1,100 hours
Lexical similarity
3%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
24%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
0%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
0%

Latin β†’ Lao

Genealogical kinship
0%

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