Only in Siraiki 55
What this means for learners
Siraiki and Burushaski share 28 sounds — roughly 34% of Burushaski's inventory overlaps with Siraiki. 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 Burushaski represent the greatest pronunciation challenge for Siraiki 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, Siraiki has 55 sounds not used in Burushaski. Native Burushaski speakers learning Siraiki 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.