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Probably no one cares but I thought way too much about linguistics-y things (gotta use my degree for something!) so just gonna dump this here

Names

In the Romanization of the Qr’var language, the following conventions are used:

• An apostrophe following a character marks that character as pharyngealized, similar to the emphatic consonants in Arabic
• AEIOU are pretty simple and represent the same sounds they would in Japanese or Spanish
• Q represents a uvular stop, as in Arabic. This sound is similar to K but pronounced further back in the mouth
• R represents a guttural R as in French or German
• V represents a labiodental approximant, like how many speakers of Indian English say V. It's like a cross between W and V
• X represents a velar fricative, like the CH in German or Scottish. It's like a cross between K and H
• Y represents a front rounded vowel, as in Danish or Norwegian. It's like an English EE sound but with your lips compressed into a circle

Using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), Q'vyx is pronounced /qˤʋyx/ and Qr'var is pronounced /qʀˤʋaʀ/