Only in Nara 30
What this means for learners
Nara and Hungarian share 29 sounds — roughly 45% of Hungarian's inventory overlaps with Nara. Shared sounds are ones a speaker already knows from their native language and will generally produce and perceive accurately without explicit training.
The 36 sounds found only in Hungarian represent the greatest pronunciation challenge for Nara 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, Nara has 30 sounds not used in Hungarian. Native Hungarian speakers learning Nara 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.