Phonemes

A phonem is a linguistic sound representation, the smallest element of a word/language. Here are a few languages (most common & extremes ones) with their associated number of phonemes so that you have an idea of what it means. Some phonemes are also more difficult to pronounce, so what makes a language difficult is not the amount.

!Xóõ (southern-central Africa): 112
Hungarian: 68
Slovak: 51
German: 47
Portugese: 46
English: 45
Japanese: 42
French: 35
Spanish: 30
Arab: 29
Esperanto: 28
Italian: 27
Pirahã (Amazonian): 10