Only in NYAH KUR 24
What this means for learners
NYAH KUR and SEDANG share 26 sounds — roughly 47% of SEDANG's inventory overlaps with NYAH KUR. Shared sounds are ones a speaker already knows from their native language and will generally produce and perceive accurately without explicit training.
The 29 sounds found only in SEDANG represent the greatest pronunciation challenge for NYAH KUR 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, NYAH KUR has 24 sounds not used in SEDANG. Native SEDANG speakers learning NYAH KUR 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.