There are lots of ways to think about language. For the purposes of speech recognition models, Common Voice suggests focussing on ‘mutual intelligibility’, or ‘can speakers of this language mostly understand one another if they try to?’
ⵍⵍⴰⵏⵜ ⴽⵉⴳⴰⵏ ⵏ ⵜⵖⴰⵔⴰⵙⵉⵏ ⵏⵏⴰ ⵙ ⵔⴰⴷ ⵏⵙⵡⵉⵏⴳⵎ ⴳ ⵜⵓⵜⵍⴰⵢⵜ. ⵉ ⵉⵡⵜⵜⴰⵙⵏ ⵏ ⵜⵎⵓⴷⵎⵉⵡⵉⵏ ⵏ ⵜⵓⴽⵣⴰ ⵏ ⵡⴰⵡⴰⵍ, ⵍⴰ ⵉⵙⵙⵓⵎⵓⵔ ⴽⴰⵎⵏⴼⵓⵢⵙ ⵜⴰⵡⵏⴰ ⵅⴼ ‘ⵜⴰⴼⴰⵡⵜ ⵉⵛⵛⴰⵔⵏ’, ⵏⵉⵖ ‘ⵉⵙ ⵣⵎⵔⵏ ⵉⵎⵙⵙⵉⵡⵍⵏ ⵙ ⵜⵓⵜⵍⴰⵢⵜ ⴰ ⴰⴷ ⵔⵎⵙⵏ ⵙ ⵓⴷⵙⵍⴰⵏ ⴳⵔⴰⵙⵏ ⵎⴽ ⵓⵔⵎⵏ ⴰⴷ ⵏⵏⵔⵎⵙⵏ?’