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How easy is Javanese for Tagalog speakers?

Going from Tagalog to Javanese (Basa Jawa) has a composite linguistic distance of 51% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

51% distance FSI Cat II — ~900 hours
Lexical similarity
30%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance
69%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity
33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match
40%

Latin → Latin/Javanese

Genealogical kinship
70%

Austronesian ↔ Austronesian

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