Voiced_velar_implosive
Voiced velar implosive
Consonantal sound
The voiced velar implosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨ɠ ⟩, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is g_<
. It is familiar to English speakers as the sound made when mimicking the 'gulping' of water.