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otakufreak40
December 15, 2013

The Arabic "Q"

I recently started wandering something. What if the "Q" in Dovahzul is pronounced similarly to the "Q" in Arabic and other languages? (Basically, like a "K" but further back in the throat. More HERE) To me at least, it makes more sense than it being another letter that sounds like "K".

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paarthurnax
Administrator
December 15, 2013

That makes sense to me as well. A confirmed difference between "Q" and "K" is that "Q" has a "w/u" sound after it. This little notation comes from the game's dialogue files:

Qostiid= prophecy (KWOWES-teed)

So a word like "Qahnaarin" is pronounced like "kwa-NAAR-in". A subtle difference, but an important distinction between "K" and "Q".

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Tinvaakfuntkoraavaan
March 21, 2014

It still begs the question of why you would write it as "q" instead of "kw," but I guess the developers at Bethesda just couldn't get past their English alphabet being fully represented in the dragon language, usefulness yes or no.

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