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Voiced velar plosive [ɡ]
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The voiced velar plosive [ɡ] is a consonant phone.
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Features[edit | edit source]
The voiced velar plosive has the following features:
- Its manner of articulation is a plosive, which means that the airflow is completely obstructed before being released.
- Its place of articulation is velar, which means that the sound is produced by the back of the tongue making contact with the soft part of the roof of the mouth, called the velum.
- It’s a voiced consonant, which means that the vocal cords vibrate during the articulation of the sound.
Classification[edit | edit source]
It’s classified as a velar plosive, and has a voiceless counterpart, the voiceless velar plosive [k].
Representation[edit | edit source]
In the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), it has the IPA symbol lowercase G. This was originally specified as an opentail G ⟨ɡ⟩, as in the title of this page, but from 1993 a looptail G ⟨
⟩ was accepted as an alternative. This has the IPA number 110.
English[edit | edit source]
In English, this is the standard pronunciation of the G phoneme /ɡ/, as in words like go and give.
