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How easy is Turkmen for Tatar speakers?

Going from Tatar to Turkmen (Türkmen) has a composite linguistic distance of 60% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

60% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

10%

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

100%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

40%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Cyrillic → Latin

Genealogical kinship

40%

Turkic ↔ Turkic

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Other easy languages for Tatar speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Tatar:

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Kyrgyz

31% distance
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Kazakh

41% distance
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Azerbaijani

42% distance
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Turkish

44% distance
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Uyghur

62% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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