# Amharic–Tigrigna NLP Comparison: Grapheme and Phoneme Analysis
This project is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline designed to compare **Amharic** and **Tigrigna** in two levels:
- It compares words for **grapheme** similarity and
- Individual letters for **phoneme** (sound) similarity.
## Dataset
Parallel used in this project:
- Amharic Bible (New Testament)
- Tigrigna Bible (New Testament)
- Amharic Surah al-Mujadilah
- Tigrigna Surah al-Mujadilah
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## Linguistic References
- ASCII representation of Ethiopic script:
abyssiniagateway.net
researchgate.net
- IPA references for phonemic mapping:
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
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## Running the Code
After cloning the repository, run the main.py file.
Follow the on-screen instructions carefully. Each stage may take a few seconds to complete because it's dealing with a large set of data.
For a better understanding of how the code works, refer to the report included in the project directory.