Going from Uzbek to Malayalam (เดฎเดฒเดฏเดพเดณเด) has a composite linguistic distance of 82% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Latin/Cyrillic โ Malayalam
Turkic โ Dravidian
The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Uzbek:
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