Intelligibility

The dialects spoken by the Amish and the Mennonites have a very limited degree of intelligibility because these communities migrated to America before the German language was standardized.

There is total mutual intelligibility between Kabyle and the Shenwa dialect.

Stating that Berber dialects are separate languages is a common fallacy upheld by Western linguists who have little knowledge about the linguistic reality of North Africa. Mutual intelligibility among Berber speakers, particularly those who speak Northern Berber dialects is a verifiable fact.

No sensible person can deny the verifiable mutual intelligibility of Northern Berber dialects?

Very little has been written about mutual intelligibility between different Berber dialects.

Figure 8.1 shows the students' perceptions of the NSE and NNSE varieties in terms of intelligibility. […]