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Voiced velar plosive

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The voiced velar plosive is a velar plosive sound that's an voiced consonant.

Its place of articulation is as a velar sound. The manner of articulation is a plosive. It is a voiced consonant, with a voiceless counterpart, the voiceless velar plosive.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, this is represented by [g]. Its IPA number is 110. In X-SAMPA, it’s represented by g.

Phonotactics[edit | edit source]

In English phonotactics, this sound occurs in both onset and coda positions.

It also occurs as part of initial consonant clusters, in particular initial consonant cluster /sk/, initial consonant cluster /skr/ and initial consonant cluster /skw/. And as final consonant clusters final consonant cluster /gz/ and final consonant cluster /gd/.

Spelling[edit | edit source]

In English spelling, this sound is spelt in different ways:

References[edit | edit source]