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?’
Fɛɛrɛ caman bɛ yen ka miiri kanko la. Kuma dɔnni misaliw kama, Common Voice b’a jira ko u ka sinsin ‘ɲɔgɔn faamuyali kan’, walima ‘yala kan in fɔbagaw bɛ se ka ɲɔgɔn faamuya kosɛbɛ n’u y’a ɲini wa?’