Inuit languages are relatively restricted in their phonology. It's a three vowel system (6 if you count long/short separately), fourteen consonants (2 of which are unfamiliar to Germanic/Romance speakers), allows gemination of consonants (i.e., consonants can be short or long), and mostly follows a C?VC? syllable scheme. The only unfamiliar consonant without a general transliteration to ASCII text is the /ɬ/ sound; q is already familiar to people who transliterate the Arabic /q/, and ng is common for /ŋ/.