fish954/Amharic-Tigrigna-G2P

Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion and comparison between Amharic and Tigrigna using a custom dictionary-based approach. # Amharic-Tigrigna-G2P Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion and comparison between Amharic and Tigrigna using a custom dictionary-based approach. ## Project Goals - Compare linguistic similarity between Amharic and Tigrigna. - Use phoneme-based analysis to go beyond surface-level word matching. - Visualize and interpret similarity through frequency overlap metrics. ## Features - Custom G2P dictionary for phoneme transcription of Ge'ez script. - Frequency analysis of both words and phonemes. - Computes overlap scores: - Word Overlap (Exact matches) - Phoneme Overlap (Sound similarity) - Normalized scoring from 0 to 1: - 1.0 = full overlap - 0.0 = no overlap ## Interpretation - A high phoneme overlap indicates that the languages sound very similar despite vocabulary differences. - A high word overlap means that the languages may share a lot of common words or the two texts use a lot of the same vocabulary.