Shared sounds 34
What this means for learners
Tigre and Hungarian share 34 sounds — roughly 52% of Hungarian's inventory overlaps with Tigre. 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 Hungarian represent the greatest pronunciation challenge for Tigre 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, Tigre has 20 sounds not used in Hungarian. Native Hungarian speakers learning Tigre 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.