Only in Magahi 41
What this means for learners
Magahi and Kabardian share 9 sounds — roughly 14% of Kabardian's inventory overlaps with Magahi. Shared sounds are ones a speaker already knows from their native language and will generally produce and perceive accurately without explicit training.
The 54 sounds found only in Kabardian represent the greatest pronunciation challenge for Magahi 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, Magahi has 41 sounds not used in Kabardian. Native Kabardian speakers learning Magahi 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.