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The voiced velar plosive is a type of Consonant al sound, used in some Spoken Language s. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g. Of the six plosives that would be expected from the most common pattern world-wide, that is, three places of articulation plus voicing and are the most frequently missing, being absent in about 10% of languages that otherwise have this pattern. The former is an and tongue for airflow, the imbalance is more extreme: Voiced is much rarer than voiceless .) (If in the box IPA-text to the right you see a symbol resembling an upper-case Y rather than a lower-case g, you are experiencing a well-known bug in the font ''MS Reference Sans Serif''; switching to ''Lucida Sans Unicode'' or ''Arial Unicode'' should fix it. On your current font: . Switching to another font: {Link without Title} .) FEATURES Features of the voiced velar plosive:
VARIETIES OF IN ENGLISH In English, the sound is denoted by the letter 'g' as in ''gum'' or ''bag''. However, the letter 'g' does not always denote the sound When followed by 'i' or 'e' or preceded by 'd' it sometimes denotes the Affricate as in ''gin'' and ''judgement''. When preceded by 'n' and occurring at the end of a Morpheme , it often becomes the Digraph 'ng', which denotes the Velar Nasal , as in ''singer'' and ''rung'', but not ''finger''. IN OTHER LANGUAGES The sound is a common sound cross-linguistically. Many languages have at least a plain , and some distinguish more than one variety. Many India n languages, such as Hindi , have a contrast between Breathy Voice and modal voice . THE SYMBOL Strictly, the IPA symbol is the so-called "opentail G" , though the "looptail G" is considered an acceptable alternative. The Unicode character "Latin small letter G" (U+0067) renders as either an opentail G or a looptail G depending on font, while the character "Latin small letter script G" (U+0261) is always an opentail G, but is generally available only in fonts with the IPA Extensions character block. SEE ALSO |
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