Only in Sa'ban 30
What this means for learners
Sa'ban and Kharia share 16 sounds — roughly 34% of Kharia's inventory overlaps with Sa'ban. Shared sounds are ones a speaker already knows from their native language and will generally produce and perceive accurately without explicit training.
The 31 sounds found only in Kharia represent the greatest pronunciation challenge for Sa'ban 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, Sa'ban has 30 sounds not used in Kharia. Native Kharia speakers learning Sa'ban 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.