Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-999343-20130426180505/@comment-1904799-20140216211936

While I think that [y:vax] is probably as close to a proper pronunciation as we're going to find, I'm still tempted to call him "Yawack." Without hearing it verbally pronounced by, say, Kubo himself, I don't think we'll ever really have a perfect transliteration.