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affricate::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | affricate consonant, affricative |
| Type of | obstruent |
Examples of affricate
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Up until the Old Babylonian period, the Akkadian sibilants were exclusively affricate.
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The unaspirated plosives and affricate are optionally voiced intervocally.
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This is mostly a deaffrication of the affricate in intervocalic position.
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The affricate counterparts are written with orthographic tz and ts.
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The voiced alveolar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages.
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The voiced retroflex affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages.
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At the end of utterances, the affricate is partially devoiced.
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The tie bar is intended to cover both letters of an affricate or doubly articulated consonant.
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The voiced alveolo-palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spokenlanguages.
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- A composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')
- (affrication) the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate
- Affricates are consonants that begin as stops (most often an alveolar, such as or) but release as a fricative (such as or or occasionally into a fricative trill) rather than directly into the following vowel.
- (affrication) becoming an affricate sound; a particular instance of such change
