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?’
Ziningi izindlela zokucabanga ngelimi. Ngenxa yamamodela wokuqoshwa kwenkulumo, iCommon Voice iphakamisa ukugxila 'kukuqondana okuvumelanayo', noma 'izikhulumi zalolimi ziyakwazi na ukuqondana uma zizama?'