The voiced velar plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. Its manner of articulation is a voiced glottalic plosive or stop. Its place of articulation is velar. The symbol used by the International Phonetic Alphabet to represent this symbol is [g]. The [g] sound in English is spelled with the same letter 'g', as in gut or bag.
The [g] sound is a common sound cross-linguistically. Many languages have at least a plain [g], and some distinguish more than variety. Many Indian languages, such as Hindi, have a two-way contrast between aspirated (or breathy voice) and plain [g].
Varieties of [g] {| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" ! IPA !! Description |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|g || plain g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|gʱ or g̤ || aspirated or breathy voice g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|gʲ || palatalized g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|gʷ || labialized g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|g˺ || unreleased g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|g̊ || voiceless g |}
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="4" ! IPA !! Description |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|g || plain g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|gʱ or g̤ || aspirated or breathy voice g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|gʲ || palatalized g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|gʷ || labialized g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|g˺ || unreleased g |- | style="font-size:36px" align="center"|g̊ || voiceless g |}
