Only in BODO 1
What this means for learners
LAME and BODO share 20 sounds — roughly 53% of BODO's inventory overlaps with LAME. Shared sounds are ones a speaker already knows from their native language and will generally produce and perceive accurately without explicit training.
The 1 sound found only in BODO represent the greatest pronunciation challenge for LAME 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, LAME has 18 sounds not used in BODO. Native BODO speakers learning LAME 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.