Voiced velar plosive

The voiced velar stop is a type of consonant. The letter for this sound in the International Phonetic Alphabet is ⟨⟩. The X-SAMPA symbol for this sound is ⟨g⟩. The English language has this sound, and it is the sound represented by the "g" in gear and grow.

 Features 
See also: Voiced uvular lateral fricative

Examples

Language  Word  IPA Meaning Abkhaz  /ažyga   'shovel' Adyghe  Shapsug  /g'ègwal"è   'toy' Temirgoy  / č"ygy   'tree'  Albanian     'donkey'ArabicMoroccan/'agaadiir'Agadir' Tunisian /gafs'a 'Gafsa' Hejazi  /gamar  'moon' NajdiSa'idi Yemeni  /gaal  '(he) said'/gamal'camel'Egyptian/raagel'man' Armenian  Eastern /ganç  'treasure'  Assyrian ܓܢܐ    'self' Azerbaijani    'black' Basque    'lose' Bengali গান/gan  'song' Bulgarian гора/gora   'forest'  Catalan      'glove' Chinese  Southern Min  我/ góa   'I' Wu 狂/ woã  'crazy'  Xiang  共/ wong   'together' Chechen /govr   'horse'  Czech     'gram' Dutch  All dialects      'tissue' Standard Many speakers  goal    'goal' Amelands  goëd    'good'   English     'gaggle'  Esperanto     'tasty'  Filipino      'commotion'  French     'earnings' Georgian  /guli  'heart'  German     'lie' Greek   /    'donkey's bray' Gujarati  /gāvu   'to sing' Hebrew  /gav  'back'  Hindustani   /  'song' Hungarian     'permission' Irish     'sand' Italian     'competitions' Japanese   /    'overcoat' Kabardian  Baslaney  / k'anė   'shirt' Kagayanen     'spirit' Khmer   /     'gas'  Korean   /   'catfish' Lithuanian garai    'steam'  Macedonian  /grom  'thunder' Malay     'sack' Marathi   'grass'  Nepali  'village' Norwegian     'gold' Odia ଗଛ/gacha  'tree' Persian  گوشت/gušt   'meat'  Polish     'plebs' Portuguese     'tongue' Punjabi ਗਾਂ/gaa'cow' RomanianDEX Online :    'thought' Russian  /golova  'head' Serbo-Croatian   /     'guest' Slovak     'lymph' Somali   'to shorten' Spanish     'cat' Swahili     'darkness' Swedish      'tasty'  Turkish     'epidemic' Ukrainian  /g̀anok  'porch'Welshgwyn[ɡwɪn] or [ɡwɨ̞n]'white' West Frisian    'buckle' (n.) Yi  /    'hear' Zapotec Tilquiapan  gan   'will be able'

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Category:Consonants