Only in Lingala 0
No unique sounds
What this means for learners
BETE and Lingala share 22 sounds — roughly 59% of Lingala's inventory overlaps with BETE. Shared sounds are ones a speaker already knows from their native language and will generally produce and perceive accurately without explicit training.
Conversely, BETE has 15 sounds not used in Lingala. Native Lingala speakers learning BETE will face the mirror-image challenge with these sounds.
Phoneme inventories from PHOIBLE. Data reflects one documented inventory per language; some variation exists across dialects and sources.