High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The voiced uvular plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ?, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is G. [?] is a rare sound, even compared to other uvulars. See Voiced velar plosive for a possible reason. Its manner of articulation is plosive or stop, which means it is produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract. Its place of articulation is uvular which means it is articulated with the back of the tongue (the dorsum) against or near the uvula.