Going from Mandarin Chinese to Sardinian (Sardu) has a composite linguistic distance of 83% (heuristic estimate). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Chinese → Latin
Sino-Tibetan ↔ Indo-European
The 5 languages with the lowest linguistic distance from Mandarin Chinese:
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