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?’
Ku ni tindlela to tala to ehleketa hi ririmi. Hi swikongomelo swa timodlele ta lemukiso wa mbulavulo, Common Voice yi ringanyeta ku kongomisa eka ‘ntwisiso wa ku pfumelelana’, kumbe ‘xana vavulavuri va ririmi leri va nga twisisana kahle loko va ringeta?’.