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Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant sequence. English has two affricate phonemes, /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/, generally spelled ch and j, respectively.

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Affricates vs. stop–fricative sequences

Geminate affricates

Sibilant affricates

Trilled affricates

Heterorganic affricates

Phonation, coarticulation and other variants

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Affrication

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Affricate

Nodes104
Edges103
Triples106
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019231
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Affricate

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related to Affrication · 20
Affricate → Affrication, Amharic, Anglo-Frisian, Aramaic, Brazilian Portuguese, Cockney, Early Modern English, Examples, French, German, Hebrew, High German, Japanese, Kinn, Modern English, Proto-Germanic, Proto-Semitic, Scouse, Standard Arabic, UdmurtPolish
related to Examples · 20
Affricate → Also, Athabaskan, Chinese, Dene Suline, For, German, High Alemannic Swiss German, However, IPA, Italian, Izi, Kinyarwanda, Much, Nahuatl, Navajo, Polish, Some, The English, Tswana, Worldwide
related to Heterorganic affricates · 15
Affricate → Although, Bantu, Blackfoot, Chiricahua Apache, Djeoromitxi, Itene, Navajo, Northern Sotho, Oro Win, Other, Phuthi, Sangtam, Sesotho, Trilled, Wari
related to Phonation, coarticulation and other variants · 8
Affricate → Affricates, Hmong, Italian, Karelian, Labialized, Several Khoisan, Taa, The
related to Sibilant affricates · 8
Affricate → Abkhaz, Arabic, Spanish, Thai, The Northwest Caucasian, They, Ubykh, When
related to Geminate affricates · 7
Affricate → For, However, Italian, Japanese, Polish, This, When
related to Phonological representation · 6
Affricate → According, Affricates, Chipewyan, For, In, Kehrein
related to Notation · 5
Affricate → Affricates, In, International Phonetic Alphabet, The, Thus
related to Affricates vs. stop–fricative sequences · 3
Affricate → In, Klallam, Polish
related to List of affricates · 3
Affricate → For, In, The

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affricates stop fricative may languages english also consonant release articulation ipa common used german polish phonetic example case place sequence

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Affricateis aconsonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative0.90text
Polishinstance ofwhich is contrastive in languages0.80text
waltzinstance ofthough there are exceptions0.80text
adzeinstance ofthough there are exceptions0.80text
the followinginstance ofcan be observed by minimal pairs0.80text
Phuthiinstance ofOther heterorganic affricates are reported for Northern Sotho and other Bantu languages0.80text
which has alveolarinstance ofOther heterorganic affricates are reported for Northern Sotho and other Bantu languages0.80text
Taa are reported to have voiced ejective affricatesinstance ofSeveral Khoisan languages0.80text
but these are actually pre-voicedinstance ofSeveral Khoisan languages0.80text
Affricaterelated to Affricates vs. stop–fricative sequencesIn0.60section
Affricaterelated to Affricates vs. stop–fricative sequencesPolish0.60section
Affricaterelated to Affricates vs. stop–fricative sequencesKlallam0.60section

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