Only in Romanian 43
What this means for learners
Romanian and SEDANG share 8 sounds — roughly 15% of SEDANG's inventory overlaps with Romanian. Shared sounds are ones a speaker already knows from their native language and will generally produce and perceive accurately without explicit training.
The 47 sounds found only in SEDANG represent the greatest pronunciation challenge for Romanian 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, Romanian has 43 sounds not used in SEDANG. Native SEDANG speakers learning Romanian 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.