A velar consonant, like the first sound in "good" or "king", applies the tongue to the soft this
[DOC] [TLE] The Greek Alphabet [PAR] Now, to the modern Greek ear, [v] is a soft sound (a fricative in linguistics), sort 
of ... and the letter gamma ([g] in Classic Greek, [] later the latter sound is a 
voiced velar ... like the initial sound in woman, but with the back of the tongue 
touching .... is absent from the alphabet: it is [], the ingma, the last consonant in 
king.