@InProceedings{feleke:2017:VarDial,
  author    = {Feleke, Tekabe Legesse},
  title     = {The similarity and Mutual Intelligibility between Amharic and Tigrigna Varieties},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)},
  month     = {April},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Valencia, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {47--54},
  abstract  = {The present study has examined the similarity and the mutual intelligibility
	between Amharic and Tigrigna using three tools namely Levenshtein distance,
	intelligibility test  and questionnaires. The study has shown that both
	Tigrigna varieties have almost equal phonetic and lexical distances from
	Amharic. The study also indicated that Amharic speakers understand less than
	50% of the two varieties. Furthermore, the study showed that Amharic speakers
	are more positive about the Ethiopian Tigrigna variety than the Eritrean
	Variety. However, their attitude towards the two varieties does not have an
	impact on their intelligibility. The Amharic speakers’ familiarity to the
	Tigrigna varieties is largely dependent on the genealogical relation between
	Amharic and the two Tigrigna varieties.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-1206}
}