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How easy is Telugu for Cantonese speakers?

Going from Cantonese to Telugu (తెలుగు) has a composite linguistic distance of 87% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.

87% distance FSI Cat III — ~1,100 hours

Lexical similarity

Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.

Grammatical distance

33%

Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.

Phonological similarity

33%

Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.

Writing-system match

Chinese → Telugu

Genealogical kinship

Sino-Tibetan ↔ Dravidian

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Other easy languages for Cantonese speakers

The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Cantonese:

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Mandarin Chinese

22% distance
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Burmese

64% distance
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Lao

64% distance
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Thai

67% distance
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Tibetan

68% distance

Think you can tell them apart?

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