Kvukri Pronunciation Guide

Many sounds are similar to English, here are the non-English ones or unusual ones.
Consonants (written letter = sound/IPA (description)
' = ʔ (the pause in uh oh)
3 = ʕ (the more gutteral version of the above sound, see Arabic or Hebrew for this sound) (medial only)
Y = J (only the y in yes aside from the vowel combinations described below)
r = ʁ (properly the r from French but varies across dialects)
Kh = χ (more back x sound)
Sh = ʃ (the sh in ship)
Tz = ʦ (the ts at the end of cats)
X = x (the ch sound in Scottish loch) (medial only)
Word starting consonant clusters include: bn, dv, kl, km, kv, st, tm and zm. Simply treat them like: bnitzim = b-ni-tzim, kvukri = k-vu-kri

Vowels
A (front low/ Arabic or French) properly lower than hat though often similar to father in many dialects
E (mid-high/ French or Japanese or Russian or Spanish) close to bet
I (high/ English) seek
O (mid-high/ French or Japanese or Russian or Spanish) close to a short toe without the ending part/ the sound of toe blended with the length of boss
U (high/ Arabic or Italian or Russian or Spanish) too
Diphthongs (combo vowel sounds)
ay (eye)
ey (day)
oy (boy)
uy (akin to gooey)
iy (functionally a long i)