Ejagham de l'ouest vs Balinese
Sound inventory comparison
What this means for learners
Ejagham de l'ouest and Balinese share 21 sounds — roughly 66% of Balinese's inventory overlaps with Ejagham de l'ouest. Shared sounds are ones a speaker already knows from their native language and will generally produce and perceive accurately without explicit training.
The 3 sounds found only in Balinese represent the greatest pronunciation challenge for Ejagham de l'ouest speakers. The adult brain tends to map unfamiliar sounds onto the closest native equivalent — a process that produces the characteristic "accent" of a second-language speaker. Learning to hear and produce these sounds as distinct requires focused ear training, not just repetition.
Conversely, Ejagham de l'ouest has 11 sounds not used in Balinese. Native Balinese speakers learning Ejagham de l'ouest 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.