Uvular

Uvular sounds are made with the uvula (which is Latin for ‘little egg’, the shape of the uvula). The uvula is the little fleshy appendage that hangs down in the middle of your mouth at the back. If you gargle, the uvula vibrates. French, German, Dutch and Danish all use uvular articulations for orthographic; and in fact, one variety of English (around the north east of England) has, in its more archaic forms, a uvular sound too in this position.