Only in Siraiki 42
Shared sounds 41
What this means for learners
Siraiki and Sindhi share 41 sounds — roughly 49% of Sindhi'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 23 sounds found only in Sindhi 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 42 sounds not used in Sindhi. Native Sindhi 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.