Voiced velar plosive

IPA mark	ɡ
IPA number	110
IPA character description	Latin minuscule g with open descender
Unicode	U + 0261
HTML (dec.)	& # 609;
X-SAMPA	g
Kirshenbaum	g
Audio sample ? / i [ ʔaɡa ]

The voiced velar plosive (a voiced at the rear dorsum educated plosive ) has the following in different languages phonetic and orthographic realizations:

• German [⁠ ɡ ⁠] : G, g
• English [⁠ ɡ ⁠] : G, g
• French [⁠ ɡ ⁠] : G, g before a, o, u and consonant (except gn ).
  • Examples: g aspiller , "wasting" [ ɡaspiˈje ], g rave , "heavy" [ ɡʀav ], va g ue , "wave" [ vaɡ ]
• Italian [⁠ ɡ ⁠] : G, g before a, o, u and consonant (except gn and gl ).
  • Examples: g amba , "leg" [ ˈɡamba ], spa g hetti , "spaghetti" [ spaˈɡetːi ]
• Russian : Г, г
• Spanish : Corresponds to g in the combinations ga, go, gu, gue and gui in the absolute initial sound or after a nasal (in other places voiced velar fricative ).
  • Examples: g ato , "cat" [ ˈɡato ], man g a , "sleeve" [ ˈmaŋɡa ]

The IPA character used (Unicode U + 0261 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCRIPT G) differs from the "normal" lowercase letter g (Unicode U + 0067 LATIN SMALL LETTER G) in that the normal lowercase letter, depending on the font, has a glyph of the form with can be displayed with an open descender or with a closed descender. The IPA symbol always appears in the first form.

See also

• consonant

Pulmonary consonants according to IPA (2005)	bilabial		labio- dental		dental		alveolar		post- alveolar		retroflex		palatal		velar		uvular		phase- ryngal		glottal
	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.	stl.	sth.
Plosives	​p​	​b​					​t​	​d​			​ʈ​	​ɖ​	​c​	​ɟ​	​k​	​ɡ​	​q​	​ɢ​			​ʔ​
Nasals		​m​		​ɱ​				​n​				​ɳ​		​ɲ​		​ŋ​		​ɴ​
Vibrants		​ʙ​						​r​										​ʀ​
Taps / flaps				​ⱱ​				​ɾ​				​ɽ​
Fricatives	​ɸ​	​β​	​f​	​v​	​θ​	​ð​	​s​	​z​	​ʃ​	​ʒ​	​ʂ​	​ʐ​	​ç​	​ʝ​	​x​	​ɣ​	​χ​	​ʁ​	​H​	​ʕ​	​H​	​ɦ​
lateral fricatives							​ɬ​	​ɮ​
Approximants				​ʋ​				​ɹ​				​ɻ​		​j​		​w​ ¹
lateral approximants								​l​				​ɭ​		​ʎ​		​ʟ​
¹ The labialised variant [ w ] was inserted here as a voiced velar approximant ( half vowel ) instead of the non-labialised variant [ ɰ ].