Beholder language

Beholder language or simply beholder was the language spoken by the many-eyed monsters of the same name, as well as beholderkin. The beholders of Faerun knew their own language as Quevquel or "Speech", distinguishing it from telepathic communication. Regardless of any language they knew (most spoke Common so as to interrogate captives), beholders found any tongue but their own crude and denigrating to speak, as if doing so was to acknowledge the intelligence and creativity of other species.

Phonology
The beholder language was difficult for most humanoids to understand and speak, but not impossible. It was a guttural tongue with much lip-smacking, gurgling, and slobbering, a long conversation between two beholders (assuming they didn't immediately try to kill each other) quickly covering their surroundings with spit.

Beholder names
Beholders normally named themselves within the first year of their lives, picking out sounds and syllables that had meaning and importance to them and piecing them together. Their names were long and complicated, and pronouncing them produced much saliva. Beholders that could allow themselves to dwell in humanoid settlements, establishing themselves as the unseen leaders for guilds of lesser beings, adopted more easily pronounceable names in their minions' language.


 * Chosen names:
 * Barixis, Blorghathus, Chelm, Derukoskai, Eddalx, Famax, Gazriktak, Irixis, Irv, Ixahinon, Jantroph, Khoa, Khuxristul, Kreskalat, Lanuhsh, Murlbalbluthk, Nagish, Orox Qeqtoxii, Qualnus, Ralakor, Selthdrych, Sespetoxri, Sikrewxes, Sokhalsh, Thimnoll, Velxer, Vhalantru, Xanathar, Xeo, Zalshox, Zirlarq, Zommist, Zulnethrak


 * Nicknames:
 * Cinderglare, Eyebiter, Gobblegut, Manglecramps, Orbius, Slatherjaw

Grammar
The beholder language had no word for the name of their species, nor did eye tyrants truly recognize the term "beholder" as anything more than the assigned label of inferior creatures. They universally believed themselves to be unique entities, and perceived the idea of belonging to beholder "race", revolting, although other beholders could theoretically be "correct", acceptable variations on their one true form. In the rare situations where a beholder befriended another, they normally called the other by its own name, perhaps the greatest form of respect they could show.

Suffix
The suffix -hurr or -urr indicated an illness. The suffix -rakk or -akk indicated a temporary condition, and could apply to something such as the weather.

History
Beholders had possessed many different languages over the long ages of their existence, although within minutes of being born, most could speak the beholder language. Quevquel was the swifter and simpler version of an elder, Faerûnian beholder language, the largely forgotten "Uibilaqthraxx" or the "True Tongue".

For example, the word "sarruin" in Quevquel, referred to tiny beholderkin (such as gazers), and could be translated to mean "little-kin". This word was either descended or borrowed from the Uibilaqthraxx word "lurl'uk'lok'lahassarruin".