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Affricate
Senin, 2026-08-17 00:32:36

feature-based phonology, affricates are distinguished from stops by the feature [+delayed release]. Affrication (sometimes called affricatization) is a sound change...

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Voiceless alveolar affricate
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:56:10

A voiceless alveolar affricate is a type of affricate consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line) just...

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Voiceless velar affricate
Senin, 2026-07-27 00:27:58

A voiceless velar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

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Voiced postalveolar affricate
Selasa, 2026-08-18 19:52:03

voiced palato-alveolar sibilant affricate, voiced post-alveolar affricate, or voiced domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound...

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Voiceless palatal affricate
Selasa, 2026-06-23 13:19:03

A voiceless palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent...

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Voiced alveolar affricate
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:42:15

A voiced alveolar affricate is a type of affricate consonant pronounced with the tip or blade of the tongue against the alveolar ridge (gum line) just...

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Voiced palatal affricate
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:08:59

A voiced palatal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent...

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Voiceless postalveolar affricate
Selasa, 2026-08-18 20:01:54

A voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant affricate or voiceless domed postalveolar sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages...

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Lateral consonant
Selasa, 2026-06-23 09:51:21

approximants and belong to the class of liquids, but lateral fricatives and affricates are also common in some parts of the world. Some languages, such as the...

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Voiceless retroflex affricate
Senin, 2026-08-17 21:17:32

A voiceless retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

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Labial affricate
Selasa, 2025-02-11 00:21:47

Labial affricate may refer to: Voiceless labiodental affricate, a consonant sound written as ⟨p̪f⟩ Voiced labiodental affricate, a consonant sound written...

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Voiced retroflex affricate
Senin, 2026-08-17 21:19:33

A voiced retroflex sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

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Ejective consonant
Jumat, 2026-07-24 22:22:29

ejective affricate [t͡ɕʷʼ] (in Abkhaz, Ubykh) palatal ejective affricate [cçʼ] velar ejective affricate [kxʼ] (in Hadza, Zulu) uvular ejective affricate [qχʼ]...

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International Phonetic Alphabet
Senin, 2026-08-17 01:16:34

⟨c⟩ and ⟨ɟ⟩ are recommended for when it is preferable to transcribe affricates such as /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/ or /t͡ɕ/ and /d͡ʑ/ as single letters. Among the...

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P
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:50:52

from Greek. In German, the digraph ⟨pf⟩ is common, representing a labial affricate /pf/. Most English words beginning with ⟨p⟩ are of foreign origin, primarily...

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Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate
Selasa, 2026-08-18 19:57:30

A voiceless alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic...

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English language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:14:33

valid for California English, and for RP. For pairs of obstruents (stops, affricates, and fricatives) such as /p b/, /tʃ dʒ/, and /s z/, the first is fortis...

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Voiced uvular affricate
Senin, 2026-01-26 18:38:05

yielding ⟨ɢʁ⟩. This affricate also has an affricate ligature ⟨⟩. Features of a voiced uvular affricate: Its manner of articulation is affricate, which means...

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Trilled affricate
Minggu, 2026-06-14 03:02:14

§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. In articulatory phonetics, trilled affricates, also known as post-trilled consonants, are consonants which begin as...

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Aspirated consonant
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 21:39:35

aspirated release. An aspirated affricate consists of a stop, fricative, and aspirated release. A doubled aspirated affricate has a longer hold in the stop...

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Spanish language
Senin, 2026-08-17 20:52:08

assimilation to a following consonant; (2) three voiceless stops and the affricate /tʃ/; (3) three or four (depending on the dialect) voiceless fricatives;...

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Obstruent
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 03:12:33

airflow, such as [d] (plosives/oral stops), [ʒ] (fricatives), or [d͡ʒ] (affricates). Obstruents contrast with sonorants, which have no such obstruction and...

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Voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-18 19:28:26

voiced counterpart ⟨ʑ⟩). Some Americanists may distinguish ⟨ɕ⟩ as an affricate, typically transcribed in IPA with ⟨t͡ɕ⟩, and instead use the symbol ⟨𝼞⟩...

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Voiced palatal plosive
Rabu, 2026-08-19 16:14:42

notation. [ɟ] is a less common sound worldwide than the voiced postalveolar affricate [d͡ʒ] because it is difficult to get the tongue to touch just the hard...

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Voiced palatal lateral affricate
Jumat, 2026-01-30 13:41:04

A voiced palatal lateral affricate is a rare consonantal sound, found in the Sandawe language. There are two ways it can be represented: traditional IPA...

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Sibilant
Jumat, 2026-07-17 03:02:55

Sibilants (from Latin: sibilans 'hissing') are fricative and affricate consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, produced with a high velocity jet of...

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Postalveolar affricate
Rabu, 2025-12-03 08:04:05

Postalveolar affricates are a type of consonant sound. The most common postalveolar affricates are: Voiced postalveolar affricate (d͡ʒ) Voiceless postalveolar...

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T
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:57:31

of words or before stressed vowels. The letter ⟨t⟩ corresponds to the affricate /t͡ʃ/ in some words as a result of yod-coalescence (for example, in words...

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Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate
Selasa, 2026-08-18 19:48:14

A voiced alveolo-palatal sibilant affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

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Voiced epiglottal affricate
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 05:59:27

A voiced epiglottal affricate ([ʡ͜ʢ] in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as an epiglottal stop [ʡ] (specifically, a voiced epiglottal...

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Palatal consonant
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:59:07

the affricate [t͡ʃ]. Only a few languages in northern Eurasia, the Americas and central Africa contrast palatal stops with postalveolar affricates—as in...

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Zeus
Rabu, 2026-08-19 01:50:19

Greek, Albanian, and Messapic forms the original cluster *di̯ underwent affrication to *dz. Zeus is the only deity in the Olympic pantheon whose name has...

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Voiceless uvular affricate
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 22:02:38

A voiceless uvular affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent...

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Retroflex affricate
Senin, 2025-11-24 01:32:53

Retroflex affricate can refer to: Voiced retroflex affricate Voiceless retroflex affricate Retroflex ejective affricate This disambiguation page lists...

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Labialization
Kamis, 2026-05-21 07:10:51

Nizaa, Volow Affricate sibilant labzd voiceless alveolar affricate [t͡sʷ] Adyghe, Archi, Lezgian, Tsakhur labzd voiced alveolar affricate [d͡zʷ] Adyghe...

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List of consonants
Jumat, 2026-07-10 22:36:54

(spin) voiced bilabial plosive [b] (bed) voiceless bilabial affricate [pɸ] voiced bilabial affricate [bβ] voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ] voiced bilabial fricative...

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Voiceless bilabial affricate
Senin, 2026-01-26 18:44:24

A voiceless bilabial affricate ([p͜ɸ] in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a bilabial stop [p] and released as a voiceless bilabial...

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Voiced bilabial affricate
Senin, 2026-01-26 18:43:34

A voiced bilabial affricate ([b͜β] in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a bilabial stop [b] and released as a voiced bilabial fricative...

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Voiceless alveolar lateral affricate
Selasa, 2026-02-17 03:52:40

A voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

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Q
Selasa, 2026-08-18 04:47:45

vowels ⟨i⟩ and ⟨e⟩, since in those languages ⟨c⟩ represents a fricative or affricate before front vowels. In Italian, ⟨qu⟩ represents [kw] (where [w] is the...

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Italian language
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:21:57

e⟩. The digraphs ⟨ci⟩ and ⟨gi⟩ indicate 'softness' (/tʃ/ and /dʒ/, the affricate consonants of English church and judge) before ⟨a, o, u⟩. For example:...

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Voiceless labiodental affricate
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 09:33:20

A voiceless labiodental affricate ([p̪͡f] in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a labiodental stop [p̪] and released as a voiceless...

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Tuscan dialects
Kamis, 2026-07-23 12:46:55

weakening of the Italian "soft" g, the voiced affricate /dʒ/ (g as in judge) and "soft" c, the voiceless affricate /tʃ/ (ch as in church), known as attenuation...

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Dza (letter)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 10:25:03

alphabet. It represents the voiced alveolar affricate (/d͡z/) in Eastern and the voiceless aspirated alveolar affricate (/t͡sʰ/) Western varieties of Armenian...

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Dental ejective affricate
Rabu, 2025-12-03 08:02:30

A dental ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨t̪͡θʼ⟩. Features...

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Ç
Selasa, 2026-07-21 06:22:57

Latin alphabet. It was first used for the sound of the voiceless alveolar affricate /t͡s/ in Old Catalan as a simplification of "Ci". It also originated in...

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Pharyngeal consonant
Kamis, 2026-07-23 08:36:21

epiglottal [ʜ] and a trilled epiglottal affricate [ʡʜ]~[ʡʢ]. (There is some voicing in all Haida affricates, but it is analyzed as an effect of the vowel...

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Alveolar ejective affricate
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:00:55

An alveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

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Voiced velar affricate
Senin, 2026-01-26 18:36:56

A voiced velar affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in very few spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent...

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Voiceless epiglottal affricate
Selasa, 2026-07-21 08:45:37

A voiceless epiglottal affricate ([ʡ͡ʜ] in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as an epiglottal stop [ʡ] (specifically, a voiceless epiglottal...

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Voiceless palatal plosive
Rabu, 2026-08-19 16:15:37

plosive [kʲ] or, as often in the Indo-Aryan languages, a postalveolar affricate [tʃ] – especially in phonemic notation. The latter may be appropriate...

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Indo-Aryan languages
Senin, 2026-08-17 20:29:12

with /l/ in these languages. Lateral affricates: Bhadarwahi has an unusual series of lateral retroflex affricates (/ʈ͡ꞎ ɖ͡ɭ ɖ͡ɭʱ/ derived from historical...

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Tsa (letter)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 10:25:00

alphabet, representing the voiceless alveolar affricate (/ts/) in Eastern Armenian and the voiced alveolar affricate (/dz/) in Western Armenian. It is typically...

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List of Latin-script digraphs
Senin, 2026-08-10 23:42:40

the affricate /tʃ/ in Sandawe, Hadza and Juǀʼhoan. ⟨tf⟩ is used in the General Alphabet of Cameroon Languages for the voiceless dental affricate /t͡θ/...

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Voiceless palatal lateral fricative
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 17:09:26

has both a palatal lateral fricative and an affricate; Hadza has a series of palatal lateral affricates. In Bura, it is the realization of palatalized...

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Wadiyara Koli language
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 11:02:58

loanwords. Alveolar fricatives are often affricatized. The post-alveolar produces three distinct affricates: the voiced, the voiceless, and the voiceless...

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Č
Jumat, 2026-08-07 04:29:27

used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant [t͡ʃ] like the English ch in the word chocolate. The caron is...

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Japanese language
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 15:29:49

unrounded. /t/ is realized as an affricate t͡ɕ and t͡s before i and ɯ respectively. /d/ and /z/ merge and realize as an affricate d͡ʑ and d͡z before i and ɯ...

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Uvular lateral ejective affricate
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 20:48:13

ejective affricate is a rare type of consonantal sound, used allophonically in some spoken languages. Features of a uvular lateral ejective affricate: Its...

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Basel German
Rabu, 2026-05-13 02:05:35

Basel German or Baseldytsch (Standard German: Baseldeutsch) is the dialect of the city of Basel, Switzerland. The dialect of Basel forms a Low Alemannic...

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Che (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-06-24 03:40:21

the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/, like the ⟨tch⟩ in "switch" or ⟨ch⟩ in "choice". In English, it is...

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Alveolar lateral ejective affricate
Kamis, 2026-07-09 23:31:41

An alveolar lateral ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

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Labiodental ejective affricate
Rabu, 2025-12-03 08:18:38

A labiodental ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨p̪fʼ⟩...

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C
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 12:39:08

thirteenth century, both in France and England, this sound /ts/ was de-affricated to /s/; and from that time, ⟨c⟩ has represented /s/ before front vowels...

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Je (Armenian)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 10:25:17

pronounced as the voiced postalveolar affricate [d͡ʒ] in Eastern Armenian and the voiceless postalveolar aspirated affricate [t͡ʃʰ] in Western Armenian. Created...

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Voiced retroflex lateral affricate
Kamis, 2026-08-06 03:21:02

A voiced retroflex lateral affricate is a rare consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is...

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Pharyngealization
Senin, 2026-05-11 08:46:21

alveolar affricate [tsˤ] (in Chechen) pharyngealized voiced alveolar affricate [dzˤ] (in Chechen) pharyngealized voiceless postalveolar affricate [tʃˤ] (in...

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Alveolo-palatal affricate
Jumat, 2019-12-27 23:13:08

Alveolo-palatal affricate may refer to the following two consonants: Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate Voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate This disambiguation...

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Z
Minggu, 2026-07-05 01:17:18

In some inscriptions, z represented a Vulgar Latin sound, likely an affricate, formed by the merging of the reflexes of Classical Latin /j/, /dj/ and...

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Proto-Semitic language
Senin, 2026-07-13 00:24:40

are taken to be affricates. The "minimal affricate" position takes only the emphatic *ṣ as an affricate [t͡sʼ]. The "maximal affricate" position additionally...

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Uvular consonant
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 09:38:55

approximant, and the symbol for the voiced fricative is used instead. Uvular affricates can certainly be made but are rare: they occur in most Turkic languages...

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Basque language
Rabu, 2026-08-19 02:32:34

and the sibilant becomes the corresponding affricate. When a plosive follows an affricate, the affricate becomes a sibilant, and a voiced plosive is...

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Hachijō language
Senin, 2026-08-17 20:40:50

sometimes realized as a bilabial fricative [β]. The difference between affricate pronunciations [d͡z~d͡ʑ] and fricative pronunciations [z~ʑ] of z~zj is...

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Georgian language
Rabu, 2026-08-05 08:35:29

rich consonant system, including aspirated, voiced, and ejective stops, affricates, and fricatives. Its vowel system consists of five vowels with varying...

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Ğ
Kamis, 2026-07-09 21:56:04

In Crimean Tatar in Romania it represents the voiced palato-alveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/. In Turkish, the ⟨ğ⟩ is known as yumuşak ge (pronounced [jumuˈʃak...

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Dzhe
Selasa, 2026-03-17 11:45:43

Serbo-Croatian (Montenegrin and Serbian) to represent the voiced postalveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/, like the pronunciation of j in “jump”. Dzhe corresponds in other...

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Voiced alveolar lateral affricate
Jumat, 2026-05-08 23:14:51

A voiced alveolar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet is...

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Assimilation (phonology)
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:33:09

alveolar stop in /tr, dr/ has slowly been replaced by a post-alveolar affricate instead, resulting in the all-postalveolar consonant clusters [tʃɹ] and...

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Click consonant
Senin, 2026-07-27 01:35:58

are sometimes called affricates. (This applies to the forward articulation; both may also have either an affricate or non-affricate rear articulation as...

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Voiceless bilabial trill
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:33:28

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Ancient Egypt
Minggu, 2026-08-16 08:33:37

voiced and voiceless stops, voiceless fricatives and voiced and voiceless affricates. It has three long and three short vowels, which expanded in Late Egyptian...

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Shona language
Kamis, 2026-07-30 21:12:41

Shona's whistled sibilants are the fricatives "sv" and "zv" and the affricates "tsv" and "dzv". Whistled sibilants stirred interest among the Western...

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Tsade
Kamis, 2026-08-13 03:00:40

voiceless alveolar affricate /t͡s/. This is the same in Yiddish. Historically, it represented either a pharyngealized /sˤ/ or an affricate such as the Modern...

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Mandaic alphabet
Senin, 2026-08-17 18:14:19

placing two horizontally-aligned dots underneath (U+0859 ◌࡙ MANDAIC AFFRICATION MARK). This idea is comparable to the four novel letters in the Persian...

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Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet
Kamis, 2026-07-23 01:11:25

is [k] with a lateral-fricative release (similar to the velar lateral affricate [k͜𝼄], but with less frication); ⟨d𐞚⟩ is [d] with lateral-plus-central...

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Barred lambda
Selasa, 2026-07-14 03:22:20

running man or blam, and is used to transcribe a voiceless alveolar lateral affricate [t͡ɬ]. In physics, it represents the reduced Compton wavelength, i.e....

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Chingachgook
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 23:19:32

fricative sound [x] (as in "Bach"), not the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate [t͡ʃ] (as in "church"). Cooper got the name from Heckewelder's book History...

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Apical consonant
Rabu, 2026-03-04 01:24:41

very common distinction and is typically applied only to fricatives and affricates. Thus, many varieties of English have either apical or laminal pairs of...

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Sikkimese Bhutia language
Jumat, 2026-07-31 00:52:48

which themselves have mostly lost contrast among speakers. Plosives and affricates contrast in four distinct ways and it only occurs in the word-initial...

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Etruscan civilization
Kamis, 2026-07-30 17:13:34

sound. Z was also initially adopted into the Roman alphabet, although the affricate TS did not occur in the Latin language. Later, Z was replaced in the alphabet...

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Manner of articulation
Jumat, 2026-07-10 03:44:38

articulation with substantial obstruction of the airflow (stops, fricatives, affricates) are called obstruents. These are prototypically voiceless, but voiced...

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Voiceless velar lateral affricate
Rabu, 2026-07-01 09:26:16

A voiceless velar lateral affricate is a relatively uncommon speech sound found as a phoneme in the Caucasus and as an allophone in several languages...

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Proto-Circassian language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:24:46

system is reconstructed with a four-way phonation contrast in stops and affricates, and a two-way contrast in fricatives. The following table shows how Proto-Circassian...

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Voiced labiodental affricate
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 09:25:17

A voiced labiodental affricate ([b̪͜v] in IPA) is a rare affricate consonant that is initiated as a voiced labiodental stop [b̪] and released as a voiced...

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Obsolete and nonstandard IPA symbols
Selasa, 2026-08-18 03:51:00

as equivalents rather than simplifications (as are commonly seen for affricates). The table does not include commonplace extensions or conventions of...

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Occlusive
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 03:22:38

/n/, and /ŋ/. Affricates such as English /tʃ/, /dʒ/ are partial occlusives. Typically stops and affricates are contrasted, but affricates are also described...

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Catalan language
Minggu, 2026-08-02 23:08:06

accurate. However, in all literature only the characters for palato-alveolar affricates and fricatives are used, even when the same sources use ⟨ɕ ʑ⟩ for other...

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Voiceless glottal affricate
Rabu, 2025-12-03 08:18:25

A voiceless glottal affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbols in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represent...

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Voiceless velar lateral fricative
Kamis, 2026-08-06 01:27:06

speech sound. As one element of an affricate, it is found for example in Zulu and Xhosa (see velar lateral ejective affricate). However, a simple fricative...

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Besleney dialect
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 09:02:57

Kabardian, these consonants shifted forward to become palato-alveolar affricates (d͡ʒ, t͡ʃ, t͡ʃʼ). Besleney [ɡʲ] ⟨гь⟩ (retained) vs Standard Kabardian...

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Voiceless palatal lateral affricate
Rabu, 2026-01-28 13:55:32

A voiceless palatal lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. There are two ways it can be transcribed into IPA:...

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Catalan phonology
Rabu, 2026-08-19 19:58:10

[ˈtoð‿aˈsɔ̞] ('all this'). The phonemic status of affricates is dubious; after other consonants, affricates are in free variation with fricatives; e.g., clenxa...

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Portuguese language
Rabu, 2026-08-19 16:52:42

including the post-alveolar affricates [tʃ] and [dʒ]. In most Brazilian varieties, the stops /t/ and /d/ are realized as the affricates [tʃ] and [dʒ] before...

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Uvular ejective affricate
Rabu, 2025-12-03 07:59:47

A uvular ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

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Mexican Spanish
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:40:23

⟨tl⟩, corresponding to the voiceless alveolar affricate [t͡s] and the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate [t͡ɬ], present in many indigenous languages of...

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Ll
Senin, 2026-08-17 21:48:02

plosive), [ɖʐ] (voiced retroflex affricate), [ʈʂ] (voiceless retroflex affricate) or [t͡s] (voiceless alveolar affricate). This may also be written as ⟨l...

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Velar ejective affricate
Minggu, 2026-04-19 07:27:26

A velar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

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List of Latin-script trigraphs
Senin, 2026-08-17 01:20:11

affricate /dʒ/ in Hungarian ⟨dzv⟩ is used for the whistled sibilant affricate /d͡z̤ᵝ/ in Shona. ⟨dzx⟩ is used for the prevoiced uvularized affricate /d͡tsᵡ/...

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Hard and soft G
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:22:25

or ⟨y⟩) may be a fricative or affricate, depending on the language. In English, the sound of soft ⟨g⟩ is the affricate /dʒ/, as in general, giant, and...

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Voiced velar fricative
Rabu, 2026-08-19 14:43:25

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Phonetics
Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:33:58

is more likely to be affricated like in Isoko, though Dahalo show the opposite pattern with alveolar stops being more affricated. Retroflex consonants...

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Bengali language
Kamis, 2026-08-20 03:40:29

the stops and affricates heard in West Bengal and western Bangladesh are pronounced as fricatives. Western alveolo-palatal affricates চ [tʃɔ], ছ [tʃʰɔ~tʃɔ]...

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Xhosa language
Kamis, 2026-08-13 00:40:01

In addition to the ejective affricate [tʃʼ], the spelling ⟨tsh⟩ may also be used for either of the aspirated affricates [tsʰ] and [tʃʰ]. The breathy...

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Tshe
Minggu, 2026-04-19 15:53:56

Cyrillic alphabet, where it represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /tɕ/, somewhat like the pronunciation of ⟨ch⟩ in "chew"; however, it must...

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Postalveolar ejective affricate
Senin, 2026-03-23 23:43:22

A palato-alveolar ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The sound is represented in the International Phonetic...

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Dje
Minggu, 2026-04-19 15:55:27

alphabet, used in Serbo-Croatian to represent the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /d͡ʑ/. Dje corresponds to the Latin letter D with stroke (Đ đ) in Gaj's...

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Russian alphabet
Rabu, 2026-06-24 01:01:37

in the names Фёдор ('Theodore') and Матве́й ('Matthew'). For the [d͡ʒ] affricate, which is common in the Asian countries that were part of the Russian...

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Sotho language
Jumat, 2026-07-24 19:13:39

consonants, click consonants, a uvular trill, a relatively large number of affricate consonants, no prenasalised consonants, and a rare form of vowel-height...

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Dot (diacritic)
Kamis, 2026-07-16 05:20:59

Maltese: ċ is used for a voiceless palato-alveolar affricate, ġ for a voiced palato-alveolar affricate, and ż for a voiced alveolar sibilant. Old English:...

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Marathi language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:27:53

and neuter. Its phonology contrasts apico-alveolar with alveopalatal affricates and alveolar with retroflex laterals ([l] and [ɭ] (Marathi letters ल and...

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Spanish dialects and varieties
Kamis, 2026-08-13 22:35:29

native languages the voiceless alveolar affricate [ts] and many words with the cluster [tl] (originally an affricate [tɬ]) represented by the respective digraphs...

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Digraph (orthography)
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 01:43:23

(voiceless retroflex affricate) ⟨dz⟩ corresponds to /dz/ (voiced alveolar affricate) ⟨dź⟩ corresponds to /dʑ/ (voiced alveolo-palatal affricate) ⟨dż⟩ corresponds...

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J
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 14:06:00

Italian language") of 1524. In English, ⟨j⟩ most commonly represents the affricate /dʒ/. In Old English, /dʒ/ was represented orthographically with ⟨cᵹ⟩...

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Palatal stop
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 08:03:26

English. However, they are somewhat similar to the English postalveolar affricates [tʃ] and [dʒ], as in chat and jet, and occur in various European languages...

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Alveolo-palatal ejective affricate
Selasa, 2026-04-21 13:29:53

An alveolo-palatal ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, which was attested in Ubykh. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...

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Ĝ
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 21:14:59

postalveolar affricate (either palato-alveolar or retroflex), and is equivalent to a voiced postalveolar affricate /dʒ/ or a voiced retroflex affricate /dʐ/....

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Khoisan languages
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:37:33

225–245. Honken, Henry (1988). "Phonetic Correspondences among Khoisan Affricates". In Vossen, Rainer (ed.). New Perspectives on the Study of Khoisan. Quellen...

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Sango language
Selasa, 2026-06-02 23:02:00

affected by the mother tongue of non-native speakers of Sango. Palatal affricates occur in loan words and certain dialects. Some dialects have alternations...

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Mendoza (name)
Jumat, 2026-07-03 14:18:07

article -a (Mendoza being mendi+(h)otza). The original Basque form with an affricate sibilant (/ts/, Basque spelling ⟨tz⟩) evolved in Spanish to the current...

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Abzakh dialect
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:21:13

and affricates. This inventory included palatalized velars and a contrast between retroflex and postalveolar affricates: Postalveolar affricates: d͡ʒ...

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Dzili
Senin, 2026-03-16 13:53:59

it has a value of 3000. Dzili commonly represents the voiced alveolar affricate /dz/, like the pronunciation of ⟨ds⟩ in "pads". It is typically romanized...

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G
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 00:20:39

"hard" ⟨g⟩), as in goose, gargoyle, and game; a voiced palato-alveolar affricate (/d͡ʒ/ or "soft" ⟨g⟩), predominates before ⟨i⟩, ⟨e⟩ or ⟨y⟩, as in giant...

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Old Frisian
Senin, 2026-08-17 05:56:47

considers these to have been the palatal affricates /c͡ç/ and /ɟ͡ʝ/, respectively, before developing into affricates, though it is uncertain when this change...

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Western Armenian
Kamis, 2026-08-13 22:17:32

Armenian lies in the stop and affricate system. Classical Armenian distinguished three series of stops and affricates: voiced, voiceless unaspirated...

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Acute accent
Kamis, 2026-07-09 11:43:34

Polish, the letter ⟨ć⟩ is used to represent a voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate /t͡ɕ/. In the romanization of Macedonian, ⟨ǵ⟩ and ⟨ḱ⟩ represent the Cyrillic...

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Consonant gradation
Rabu, 2026-03-25 10:18:04

of a closed syllable. Lenition resulted in geminate (long) stops and affricates being shortened, and in short voiceless obstruents /*p *t *k/ becoming...

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Hangul
Kamis, 2026-08-20 04:06:49

Aspirated pʰ (ㅍ) tʰ (ㅌ) kʰ (ㅋ) Fricative Lax s (ㅅ) h (ㅎ) Tense s͈ (ㅆ) Affricate Lax t͡ɕ (ㅈ) Tense t͈͡ɕ͈ (ㅉ) Aspirated t͡ɕʰ (ㅊ) Sonorant Nasal m (ㅁ) n...

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Zeta
Selasa, 2026-03-03 03:23:35

pronunciation /zd/ (like Mazda), but some scholars believe that it was an affricate /dz/ (like adze). The modern pronunciation was, in all likelihood, established...

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Pulmonic-contour click
Minggu, 2025-12-07 16:32:48

and murmured (breathy voiced). At least a voiceless linguo-pulmonic affricate is attested from all Khoisan languages of southern Africa (the Khoe, Tuu...

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Thai script
Rabu, 2026-08-12 10:59:14

plosives are unvoiced, unaspirated, and have no audible release. Initial affricates and fricatives become final plosives. The initial trill (ร), approximant...

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Open O
Kamis, 2026-03-19 09:12:18

The Yucatec Maya language used Ɔ to transcribe the alveolar ejective affricate [t͡sʼ] consonant in the orthography of the Colonial period. Now dz or...

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Palatal lateral ejective affricate
Jumat, 2025-10-03 07:04:51

A palatal lateral ejective affricate is a rare type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet...

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Labiodental consonant
Minggu, 2026-04-12 22:51:19

from the German voiceless labiodental affricate ⟨pf⟩, which commences with a bilabial p. All these affricates are rare sounds.[citation needed] The stops...

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Middle English
Jumat, 2026-08-14 08:04:08

some words, however, notably from Old French, ⟨j⟩/⟨i⟩ was used for the affricate consonant /dʒ/, as in joie (modern "joy"), used in Wycliffe's Bible. This...

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Japanese phonology
Senin, 2026-08-10 12:19:46

[tɕ, ɕ, dʑ~ʑ] are lamino(dorso)-alveolopalatal [t̠ɕ, ɕ, d̠ʑ~ʑ]. The affricates are sometimes transcribed broadly as [cɕ, ɟʑ] (standing for prepalatal...

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Hehe language
Jumat, 2026-06-26 18:11:11

tense-aspect-mood system. In the "stop/affricate" group, /t͡ʃ/ and /ⁿdʑ/ are described by Nyamahanga as affricates, the others being stops. /t͡ʃ/ is described...

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Voiceless velar fricative
Senin, 2026-08-17 19:59:28

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Serbo-Croatian
Minggu, 2026-07-26 10:56:02

system is more complicated, and its characteristic features are series of affricate and palatal consonants. As in English, voice is phonemic, but aspiration...

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Proto-Kabardian language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:26:52

contrast in stops and affricates, and a two-way contrast in fricatives. Proto-Kabardian possessed a distinct series of stops and affricates. This inventory...

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Tigrinya language
Rabu, 2026-07-15 05:21:19

/kʼ/ is pronounced as a fricative, or sometimes as an affricate. This fricative or affricate is more often pronounced further back, in the uvular place...

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Voiceless palatal fricative
Senin, 2026-08-17 21:21:10

/j/. Note, however, that the sequence /tj/ is normally realized as an affricate [t͡ɕ]. See Danish phonology Dutch Standard Northern wiegje [ˈʋiçjə] 'crib'...

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Ladin language
Senin, 2026-06-22 12:53:19

nasal, or a sibilant fricative. C5 can be plosive, affricate, fricative, or a nasal. C6 can be an affricate. Syllable complexity is sensitive to word domains...

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Northern Valencian
Selasa, 2026-08-11 09:21:55

/ʃ/ (calais, creis instead of calaix, creix) and palatalisation of the affricate phonemes /t͡s/ and /d͡z/ (gots > goig, setze > setge). The articles lo...

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Nahuatl
Minggu, 2026-08-16 16:45:09

articulation of a following consonant. The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate [t͡ɬ] is assimilated after /l/ and pronounced [l]. Classical Nahuatl and...

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Övdalian
Selasa, 2026-07-21 11:29:03

Old Norse dental, velar and labial voiced fricatives. Alveolo-palatal affricate consonants occur in all Uvǫ Silan (Swedish Ovansiljan, north of Siljan)...

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Fricative
Minggu, 2026-08-09 04:23:25

have [ʒ] but lack [ʃ]. (Relatedly, several languages have the voiced affricate [dʒ] but lack [tʃ], and vice versa.) The fricatives that occur most often...

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Romance languages
Minggu, 2026-08-16 13:39:00

[k], but "soft" (fricative or affricate) before e, i, or y. G: Generally a "hard" [ɡ], but "soft" (fricative or affricate) before e, i, or y. In some languages...

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Julius Caesar
Rabu, 2026-08-19 06:30:35

before front vowels began, due to palatalization, to be pronounced as an affricate, hence renderings like [ˈtʃɛːzar] in Italian and [ˈtseːzaʁ] in German...

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Lhasa Tibetan
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:30:54

voiced [b, d, dz, ɖ ~ ɖʐ, dʑ, ɟ, ɡ], whereas the aspirated stops and affricates /pʰ, tʰ, tsʰ, ʈʰ ~ ʈʂʰ, tɕ, cʰ, kʰ/ lose some of their aspiration. Thus...

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Xiang Chinese
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 20:24:45

Middle Chinese obstruents, preserving the voiced stops, fricatives, and affricates. Xiang has also been heavily influenced by Mandarin, which adjoins three...

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Na-Dene languages
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 05:55:36

columns are not asterisked. Leer (2008, 2010) does not reconstruct the PAET affricates */dɮ/, */tɬ/ and */dz/. Judging from their rarity, he assumes they may...

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Voiced palatal approximant
Kamis, 2026-08-13 03:27:10

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Kinyarwanda
Sabtu, 2026-01-10 18:03:33

Glottal Nasal m n ɲ (ŋ) Plosive voiceless p1 t (c) k voiced (b) d (ɟ) ɡ Affricate voiceless p͡f t͡s t͡ʃ Fricative voiceless f s ʃ ç h voiced β v z ʒ (ɦ)...

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IPA consonant chart with audio
Rabu, 2026-02-18 00:44:57

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Yi script
Kamis, 2026-06-18 10:12:36

[l] Velar: g [k], k [kʰ], gg [ɡ], mg [ᵑɡ], hx [h], ng [ŋ], h [x], w [ɣ] Affricate and fricative series Alveolar: z [t͡s], c [t͡sʰ], zz [d͡z], nz [ⁿd͡z]...

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Antioquia Department
Jumat, 2026-08-14 00:09:57

apico-alveolar sound (part way to "sh"). The digraph "ll" (double L) is affricative, like English "j". Certain words beginning with "r" are prefixed by "a"...

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Sonorant
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 03:18:55

[l] and [r]. This set of sounds contrasts with the obstruents (stops, affricates and fricatives).[page needed] For some authors, only the term resonant...

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Castilian Spanish
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:25:45

/tʃ/, spelled as ⟨ch⟩, is pronounced as a palatalized voiceless alveolar affricate [t͡sʲ], at least in Madrid. Spanish from most of the Iberian Peninsula...

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Abkhazian Dze
Jumat, 2026-04-24 22:38:31

Cyrillic script. It is used in Abkhaz where it represents a voiced alveolar affricate [dz], pronounced like ⟨ds⟩ in pods. It is also used in a 2007 alphabet...

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Mid front rounded vowel
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:22:51

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Neo-Latin
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:47:02

fricative or affricate in place of a stop for the letters c and sometimes g, when preceding a front vowel. The use of a sibilant fricative or affricate for the...

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Voiced postalveolar fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-18 20:07:33

Its manner of articulation is sibilant (a subclass of fricatives and affricates), which means it is generally produced with a higher-frequency turbulence...

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Danish language
Minggu, 2026-07-12 22:47:04

pronunciation of t, [tsʰ], is in between a simple aspirated [tʰ] and a fully affricated [tsʰ] (as has happened in German with the second High German consonant...

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Proto-Min
Minggu, 2026-01-11 01:15:00

inland Fujian. The system has a six-way manner contrast in stops and affricates, compared with the three-way contrast in Middle Chinese and modern Wu...

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Caron
Selasa, 2026-07-07 15:35:34

the voiced postalveolar affricate [dʒ] (plain Ʒ/ʒ marks the alveolar affricate [dz]), Ǧ/ǧ to mark the voiced palatal affricate [ɟʝ] and Ǩ/ǩ the corresponding...

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High German consonant shift
Kamis, 2026-08-06 12:29:05

and Low German, which experienced no shift. The shift resulted in the affrication or spirantization of the West Germanic voiceless stop consonants /t/...

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Plosive
Jumat, 2026-07-10 03:42:44

That is, 'occlusive' may be defined as oral occlusive (plosives and affricates) plus nasal occlusives (nasals such as [m, n]), or 'stop' may be defined...

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Taishanese
Rabu, 2026-08-19 02:14:17

2014 Phonology of Cantonese - Page 192 Oi-kan Yue Hashimoto - 1972 "... affricates and aspirated stops into consonant clusters is for external comparative...

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East Slavic languages
Jumat, 2026-07-17 15:00:24

Can be /ɕ/ in Southern Russian Can be /ɕt͡ɕ/, /ʂː/ In Russian light affrication can occur: [tˢʲ] , [dᶻʲ] In some Northern Russian sub-dialects /v/ is...

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Old High German
Kamis, 2026-08-20 06:59:59

High German consonant shift. That distinguishes it from the alveolar affricate, which represented as z. The distinction has no counterpart in the original...

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Mid back rounded vowel
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:26:26

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Voiced labiodental flap
Selasa, 2026-08-18 03:23:42

but it may also be realized as a voiced labiodental stop, [b̪], or an affricate. It contrasts with both a bilabial and a labiodental fricative: Olson...

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Bengali dialects
Rabu, 2026-08-19 22:43:37

and affricates heard in the western and (south) central dialects are pronounced as fricatives. Western palato-alveolar and alveolo-palatal affricates চ...

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Beatboxing
Rabu, 2026-08-19 11:48:14

represented as [t͡ʃ], and "j", usually [d͡ʒ], are some examples of (ejective) affricates. Nonstandard fricatives are the mechanical sounds such as snare drums...

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Tzʼutujil language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 20:12:55

voiceless stops and affricates but instead distinguishes pulmonic and glottalized stops and affricates. The glottalized stop kʼ and affricates chʼ, tzʼ are ejective...

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Siyi
Rabu, 2026-04-15 21:09:42

2014 Phonology of Cantonese – Page 192 Oi-kan Yue Hashimoto – 1972 "... affricates and aspirated stops into consonant clusters is for external comparative...

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Kyrgyz language
Minggu, 2026-07-05 23:08:57

Post- alveolar Dorsal Nasal m n ŋ Plosive voiceless p t k voiced b d ɡ Affricate voiceless t͡ʃ voiced d͡ʒ Fricative voiceless s ʃ x* voiced z Approximant...

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Cherokee language
Kamis, 2026-07-30 23:09:54

[tʰ, kʰ, kʷʰ, t͡sʰ], except /t͡ɬ/ which surfaces as a plain voiceless affricate [t͡ɬ] or fricative [ɬ] in some Oklahoma Cherokee speakers. These aspirated...

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Asclepius
Minggu, 2026-06-14 16:37:21

substr. language) with a -σ-. I think that the -σ- renders an original affricate, which (prob. as δ) was lost before the -γ- (in Greek the group -σγ- is...

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Voiced bilabial plosive
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 23:18:05

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Valencian language
Senin, 2026-08-10 22:17:05

Affrication: boig/boja ('insane') and lleig/lletja ('ugly') - Unlike Standard Catalan, Valencian does not contrast certain fricatives with affricates...

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Voiceless retroflex fricative
Senin, 2026-08-17 21:15:52

Its manner of articulation is sibilant (a subclass of fricatives and affricates), which means it is generally produced with a higher-frequency turbulence...

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Voiceless labiodental plosive
Minggu, 2026-07-19 20:20:07

However, it does occur allophonically. The XiNkuna dialect of Tsonga has affricates, [p̪͡f] and [b̪͡v]. German /p͡f/ ranges between [p̪͡f], [p͡f], and [p͡ɸ]...

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Kannada
Minggu, 2026-08-16 22:18:10

palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m (ಮ) n (ನ) ɳ (ಣ) (ɲ) (ಞ) (ŋ) (ಙ) Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p (ಪ) t̪ (ತ) ʈ (ಟ) tʃ (ಚ) k (ಕ) aspirated pʰ (ಫ) t̪ʰ (ಥ) ʈʰ...

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Mingrelian language
Kamis, 2026-07-02 05:49:03

the town) dj marṫvil-ur-i (adj. "Martvilian") In a stem with voiceless affricates or voiceless sibilants, a later ǯ is deaffricated to d, e.g. orcxondji...

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Voiced alveolar fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:12:18

Its manner of articulation is sibilant (a subclass of fricatives and affricates), which means it is generally produced with a higher-frequency turbulence...

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Pre-stopped consonant
Kamis, 2026-02-19 07:34:35

behaves phonologically as a single consonant. That is, like affricates and trilled affricates, the reasons for considering these sequences to be single...

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Lambda
Senin, 2026-07-27 12:26:02

in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the voiced alveolar lateral affricate [dɮ]. Lambda denotes the Lebesgue measure in mathematical set theory....

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Emilian language
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 00:45:36

Some dialects go even further and vocalize all instances of coda /l/. Affricate sounds [t͡s, d͡z] can also be heard inas placealternates of the fricative...

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Ze (Cyrillic)
Rabu, 2026-08-12 01:27:53

stands for /z/; other dialects treat it as the affricate /d͡z/. /t͡s/, the voiceless alveolar affricate in Mongolian, similar to German ⟨z⟩. 3 : Digit...

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Malagasy language
Minggu, 2026-08-02 17:24:54

simply non-sibilant affricates [ʈɻ̊˔ ᶯʈɻ̊˔ ɖɻ˔ ᶯɖɻ˔]. However, in another Austronesian language with a claimed trilled affricate, Fijian, trilling occurs...

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Messapic language
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 02:23:52

/s/, it may have been an affricate in some cases. The value of Θ is unclear, but is clearly dental; it may be an affricate or a spirant. In any case...

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Florentine dialect
Minggu, 2026-08-16 04:11:19

an affricate, even though the modern standardized pronunciation, that was solely based on the spelling, accorpated the fricative with the affricates, hence...

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Tatar language
Selasa, 2026-08-18 21:49:44

the rounded å of the first syllable. Letters ç and c are pronounced as affricates. Regional differences exist also. Mishar Dialect, and especially its regional...

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Sabtu, 2026-08-15 02:31:00

postalveolar affricate /t͡ʃ/, like the English pronunciation of ch in the word chocolate. The original letter representing the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant...

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Balochi language
Minggu, 2026-08-16 13:38:46

Labial Dental/ Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p t ʈ t͡ʃ k ʔ voiced b d ɖ d͡ʒ ɡ Fricative voiceless f s ʃ h voiced...

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Breathy voice
Senin, 2026-07-13 16:57:46

such as Hindi, typically have a four-way contrast among plosives and affricates (voiced, breathy, tenuis, aspirated) and a two-way contrast among nasals...

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Paḷḷuezu dialect
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 05:20:48

ḷḷ. It can be a voiceless retroflex affricate [tʂ], a voiced retroflex plosive [ɖ] or a voiced retroflex affricate [dʐ], and it corresponds to standard...

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Azerbaijani dialects
Jumat, 2026-05-29 21:49:51

postalveolar affricates. The voiceless postalveolar affricate and voiced postalveolar affricate are fronted to the voiceless alveolar affricate and voiced...

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Chopi language
Senin, 2026-03-23 08:05:32

realizations of voiced affricates among modern speakers Sounds /t͡sᶲ, t͡sᶲʰ, d͡zᵝ, ⁿd͡zᵝ/, are typically heard as labial-alveolar affricates [p͡sᶲ, p͡sᶲʰ, b͡zᵝ...

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Dardani
Selasa, 2026-08-18 23:54:40

intermediate stages represented by the palato-alveolar affricate voiced ȷ́ [dʑ], dental affricate dz and further through a final stage dð (i.e. *ĝ(h)- >...

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Ugaritic alphabet
Rabu, 2026-08-19 19:29:15

could be approximated by native /s/. Huehnergard and Pardee make it the affricate /ts/. Segert instead theorizes that it may have been syllabic /su/, and...

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Palatal click
Jumat, 2026-07-03 06:46:50

click is ⟨ǃ͡s⟩, though this misleadingly suggests that the clicks are affricates. Another proposal is to resurrect the old ʃ-like letter for palatal clicks...

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Fula language
Minggu, 2026-08-02 02:35:14

Fulfulde Bagirmi Fulfulde The two sounds /c/ and /ɟ/, may be realized as affricate sounds [tʃ] and [dʒ]. Short /i e o u/ vowel sounds can also be realized...

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Acehnese language
Minggu, 2026-08-16 15:08:02

realised as /kʰ/, /k/, or /h/. The phoneme /pʰ/ is often articulated as the affricate /ɸ/, Acehnese speakers realise the phoneme /f/ as /ɸ/, both in Arabic...

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Okinawan language
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 08:39:39

kagin "seasoning". Both /t/ and /d/ may or may not also allophonically affricate before the mid vowel /e/, though this pronunciation is increasingly rare...

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Romansh language
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 00:08:23

Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ɲ 1ŋ Plosive voiceless p t k voiced b d ɡ Affricate voiceless ts tʃ 2tɕ voiced 2dʑ Fricative voiceless f s ʃ 3ç 4h voiced...

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Ditema tsa Dinoko
Minggu, 2026-05-24 23:20:56

is written together with a fricative to write an affricate. The post-alveolar and retroflex affricates are ligatures, with the plosive line integrated...

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Osage language
Jumat, 2026-08-07 23:30:57

contrast to Dakota, phonemically aspirated obstruents appear phonetically as affricates, and the high back vowel *u has been fronted to [y]. Osage is written...

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International Phonetic Alphabet chart
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 00:39:10

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Mordvinic languages
Minggu, 2026-02-15 02:26:28

simple schwa [ə] in their place. Word-initially, Erzya has a postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ corresponding to a fricative /ʃ/ in Moksha. Next to voiceless consonants...

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Kabardian language
Jumat, 2026-08-14 00:57:51

few languages to possess a clear phonemic distinction between ejective affricates and ejective fricatives. Like all other Northwest Caucasian languages...

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Ć
Jumat, 2026-08-07 04:32:46

various languages. It usually denotes [t͡ɕ], the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate, including in phonetic transcription. Its Unicode codepoints are U+0106...

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Ejective-contour click
Minggu, 2025-12-07 16:34:20

variants, which occur as both stops and affricates, and may be voiced. At least a voiceless linguo-glottalic affricate is attested from all Khoisan languages...

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List of Latin-script letters
Jumat, 2026-08-07 05:08:45

voiceless retroflex sibilant affricate; Superscript form is an IPA superscript letter Ꜩ ꜩ TEZH Mayan palato-alveolar affricate /ts/, Stylistical ligature...

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García (surname)
Selasa, 2026-08-04 09:11:26

Gartzia, Gartze, Garsea, and Gastea. The original Basque form with an affricate sibilant (/ts/, Basque spelling tz) evolved in Spanish to the current...

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Tok Pisin
Kamis, 2026-08-13 15:26:11

Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ŋ Plosive voiceless p t k voiced b d ɡ Affricate d̠͡ʒ Fricative voiceless f s h voiced v Approximant w l j Rhotic r...

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Avar language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 09:24:08

needed] The fortis affricates are long in the fricative part of the contour, e.g. [tsː] (tss), not in the stop part as in geminate affricates in languages such...

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Hebrew alphabet
Jumat, 2026-07-24 20:23:14

/ɬ/ (the sound of modern Welsh ll) or the voiceless alveolar lateral affricate /tɬ/ (like Náhuatl tl). The following table contains the pronunciation...

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Teochew Min
Rabu, 2026-07-29 18:24:59

affricate dz, initial in such words as jī 字 ri7 (/dzi˩/), jĭ 二 ri6 (/dzi˧˥/), jiâng 然 riang5 (/dziaŋ˥/), jia̍k 若 riag8 (/dziak˦/) loses its affricate...

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Cia-Cia language
Rabu, 2026-08-05 21:47:42

according to Rene van den Berg (1991). Notes: /t/ is realized as a palatal affricate [t͡ʃ] before high vowels /i/ and /u/ /r/ is either an alveolar trill [r]...

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Trill consonant
Jumat, 2026-07-31 05:35:36

voicing, depending on the context. A number of languages have trilled affricates such as [mbʙ] and [dʳ]. The Chapacuran languages Wariʼ, Itene, and Oro...

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Belarusian alphabet
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 23:29:15

ад-жыць) or the Belarusian affricates ⟨дж⟩ and ⟨дз⟩ (for example, падзея, джала). In some representations of the alphabet, the affricates are included in parentheses...

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Ndonga
Rabu, 2025-12-03 07:32:00

[xw], [tsʼ] (voiceless, ejective, alveolar affricate), [psʲ] (voiceless, palatalized, labio-alveolar affricate) Oshidonga has two tones: high and low. Oshindonga...

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Min Chinese
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 15:53:45

varieties can be derived from a proto-language with four series of stops or affricates at each point of articulation (e.g. /t/, /tʰ/, /d/, and /dʱ/), inland...

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Kelantan–Pattani Malay
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 12:36:47

according to Nawanit (1993), palatal affricates [c͡ç, ɟ͡ʝ] according to Wu (2023), and post alveolar affricates [t͡ʃ, dʒ] /x/ is inherently geminated...

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Literary device
Kamis, 2026-08-20 02:54:08

consonants k, g, t, d, p and b, the hissing sounds sh and s, and also the affricates ch and j, in rapid succession in a line or passage, creating a harsh and...

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Eskaleut languages
Senin, 2026-07-06 05:20:51

Palatalized Lateral Nasal m (m̥) n (n̥) (nʲ)[1] ŋ (ŋ̊) Plosive p t tʲ k q Affricate ts[2] Fricative Voiceless (f) (w̥) s (s̆) (ɬ) (x) (χ) (h) Voiced v (w)...

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Italian orthography
Senin, 2026-08-17 01:45:22

(two letters representing one sound) ⟨ci⟩ and ⟨gi⟩ to indicate "soft" (affricate) /tʃ/ or /dʒ/ before another vowel. In these instances, the vowel following...

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Albanian language
Senin, 2026-08-17 20:34:19

q and gj show variation. They may range between occurring as palatal affricates [c͡ç, ɟ͡ʝ] or as palatal stops [c, ɟ] among dialects. Some speakers merge...

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Old Persian
Rabu, 2026-08-19 13:44:04

phoneme (𐏂 in the native script, of uncertain pronunciation but perhaps an affricate or sibilant of some kind). Lycian 𐊋𐊆𐊈𐊈𐊀𐊓𐊕𐊑𐊏𐊀 Kizzaprñna ~ 𐊈𐊆𐊖𐊀𐊓𐊕𐊑𐊏𐊀...

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Komi language
Senin, 2026-07-20 12:35:44

alphabet was replaced by the Russian alphabet with certain modifications for affricates. In the 1920s, the language was written in the Molodtsov alphabet, which...

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Hadhrami Arabic
Rabu, 2025-12-24 08:19:12

In educated speech, ج is realised as a voiced palatal plosive [ɟ] or affricate [dʒ] in some lexical items which are marked [+ religious] or [+ educated]...

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Venetian language
Senin, 2026-08-17 10:24:41

ambiguous, having the same values as in Italian (both voiced and voiceless affricates /dz/ and /ts/). Nevertheless, in some books the two pronunciations are...

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Hittite phonology
Minggu, 2026-08-02 19:21:24

as a main phonological source the affrication of a "*t". In the prehistory of Hittite, a "*t" could be affricated if it was followed by "*s" or by "*i̯"...

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Shavian alphabet
Kamis, 2026-08-13 08:06:54

consonants, are the same letters that are paired in Pitman shorthand. Affricates, several diphthongs, and rhotic vowels are ligatures. The alphabet is...

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Dungan language
Senin, 2026-08-17 11:16:46

as [w] in the Şanşi dialects. The labialized retroflex fricatives and affricates [ʂʷ][tʂʷ][tʂʰʷ] can be respectively pronounced as the labiodental [f][p̪͡f][p̪͡fʰ]...

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Volapük
Minggu, 2026-08-16 05:26:02

Glottal Nasal m n         Plosive Voiced b d     ɡ   Voiceless p t     k   Affricate Voiced   t͡s ~ d͡z ⟨z⟩ t͡ʃ ~ d͡ʒ ⟨c⟩       Voiceless         Fricative...

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Geʽez
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 19:19:30

Pharyngeal Glottal median lateral plain labialized Nasal /m/ መ m /n/ ነ n Stop/ Affricate voiceless /p/ ፐ p /t/ ተ t /k/ ከ k /kʷ/ ኰ kʷ /ʔ/ አ ʼ voiced /b/ በ b /d/...

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Voiceless bilabial fricative
Rabu, 2026-08-19 22:06:27

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Serbian Cyrillic alphabet
Senin, 2026-08-17 11:06:28

was introduced by Karadžić to represent the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate (IPA: /tɕ/). It was based on, though visually distinct from, the Glagolitic...

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Minggu, 2026-05-24 02:39:21

plosive [ɖ], a voiced retroflex affricate [ɖʐ], a voiceless retroflex affricate [ʈʂ] or a voiceless alveolar affricate [t͡s]. Formerly, this group of sounds...

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Sinhala script
Rabu, 2026-08-12 09:13:14

śuddha set, while letters in pink belong to the miśra set. The voiceless affricate (ච [t͡ʃa]) is not included in the śuddha set by purists since it does...

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Uyghur language
Senin, 2026-08-10 12:55:06

alveolars (s, z, r, l), palatals (j), dentals (t̪, d̪, n̪), and post-alveolar affricates (t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ), e.g. chiraq [t͡ʃʰˈiraq] 'lamp', jenubiy [d͡ʒɛnʊˈbiː] 'southern'...

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White South African English phonology
Selasa, 2026-06-30 20:00:53

within the same syllable. Speakers of the General variety can strongly affricate the syllable-final /t/ to [ts], so that wanting /ˈwɒntɨŋ/ can be pronounced...

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Iranian languages
Minggu, 2026-08-02 01:46:52

common intermediate stage, it is possible to reconstruct depalatalized affricates: *c, *dz. (This coincides with the state of affairs in the neighboring...

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Palatal hook
Selasa, 2026-07-21 00:45:40

the sibilant affricates ʦ̡ (𝼸) 𝼗 𝼒. (The forms with a palatal curl, 𝼬 and 𝼫, will become available with Unicode 18.) The affricate ʣ̡ (𝼮) is implied...

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Che (Armenian)
Kamis, 2026-08-20 00:22:58

the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate (/t͡ʃ/) in standard Eastern Armenian, and the voiced palato-alveolar affricate (/d͡ʒ/) in western varieties of...

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Yapese language
Minggu, 2026-01-11 10:22:22

/ʔ/, are aspirated at the ends of words. Voiced obstruents are stops or affricates after nasals and fricatives elsewhere, though certain regions of Yap may...

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Finnish language
Minggu, 2026-08-09 15:01:00

distinguish /f/ and /ʃ/. The alphabet includes ⟨z⟩, usually realized as the affricate [ts], as in German. While standard Finnish has lost palatalization, characteristic...

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Voiced retroflex plosive
Senin, 2026-04-20 02:16:23

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Labial consonant
Kamis, 2026-07-30 01:27:41

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Sindhi language
Selasa, 2026-08-18 17:39:37

ratio is around average for the world's languages at 2.8. All plosives, affricates, nasals, the retroflex flap, and the lateral approximant /l/ have aspirated...

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Tshiluba language
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 11:08:01

sound [ɸ]. If a /d/ is preceding an /i/, it may also be pronounced as an affricate sound [dʒ]. According to The Rosetta Project, Article 1 of the Universal...

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Yucatec Maya language
Minggu, 2026-05-17 12:38:26

"reversed c" ⟨ɔ⟩ was often used to represent /t͡sʼ/ (the alveolar ejective affricate). This sound is now represented by ⟨tzʼ⟩ in the revised ALMG orthography...

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Unfinished Tales
Rabu, 2026-02-11 04:18:04

pronouncing Chîn like English "chin" with a voiceless palato-alveolar affricate, rather than a voiceless palatal fricative as in the German dich or the...

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Tuscarora language
Senin, 2026-08-17 11:50:37

situations, /s/ is pronounced [ʃ]. /h/ is generally [h]. There is an affricate, /ts/.[is this the same as t͡ʃ?] Resonants are /n/, /ɾ/, /w/, /j/. A rule...

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Voiced velar lateral affricate
Senin, 2026-02-16 10:05:28

A voiced velar lateral affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that...

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Prenasalized consonant
Kamis, 2026-08-13 17:00:56

prenasalized fricatives and sonorants are not as common as prenasalized stops or affricates, and the presence of the former implies the latter. Only three languages...

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Walloon language
Senin, 2026-08-17 06:02:06

kw. Latin /k/ before /a/ and /ɡ/ before /e/, /i/, or /a/ gave Walloon affricate phonemes spelled tch /t͡ʃ/ and dj /d͡ʒ/: vatche (vs. French vache "cow")...

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Sinitic languages
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 07:38:37

varieties. For instance, some words with the cheng initial (澄母) are not affricates in Min. This, interestingly, has led to many languages, such as English...

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Voiceless velar plosive
Minggu, 2026-07-19 01:02:30

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Galician language
Kamis, 2026-08-20 10:41:21

region) of voiced and voiceless fricatives, followed by a process of de-affrication which led to different results in the west and in the east. The most...

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Kaqchikel language
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 07:09:59

voiceless stops and affricates, instead distinguishing plain and glottalized stops and affricates. The plain stops and affricates are usually voiceless...

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Mandarin Chinese
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:47:48

reorganization of the Middle Chinese tones. In Middle Chinese, initial stops and affricates showed a three-way contrast between tenuis, voiceless aspirated and voiced...

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Americanist phonetic notation
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:19:33

other hand, Americanist notation uses single letters for most coronal affricates, whereas the IPA generally requires digraphs. Otherwise Americanist notation...

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Implosive consonant
Jumat, 2026-08-14 00:10:20

Implosive consonants are a group of stop consonants (and possibly also some affricates) with a mixed glottalic ingressive and pulmonic egressive airstream mechanism...

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Palatalization in the Romance languages
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 17:52:39

secondary articulation, as well as certain further developments such as affrication. It resulted in the creation of several consonants that had not existed...

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Tse (Cyrillic)
Jumat, 2026-02-27 10:05:32

of the Cyrillic script. It commonly represents the voiceless alveolar affricate /t͡s/, similar but not identical to the pronunciation of zz in "pizza"...

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Uzbek language
Selasa, 2026-08-18 09:47:23

[œzbekɪstɒn]. In word-final position and preconsonantally, /q/ is an affricate [q͡χ˖]; elsewhere, it is a pre-uvular plosive [q̟]. As a Turkic language...

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Ezh
Minggu, 2026-08-16 01:57:41

and with a caron (⟨Ǯ ǯ⟩). In Laz, these represent voiceless alveolar affricate /ts/ and its ejective counterpart /tsʼ/, respectively. In Skolt Sami they...

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Shuar language
Minggu, 2026-08-16 04:05:07

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Nasal m n ŋ Plosive p t k Affricate t͡s t͡ʃ Fricative s ʃ h Trill r Semivowel j w...

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Neolatino Romance
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 08:30:52

marked with a grave accent. The letters j and z can be pronounced as affricates or as fricatives. The commonly accepted method is to pronounce them as...

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Close vowel
Minggu, 2024-09-22 20:55:08

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Faroese language
Senin, 2026-08-17 05:28:22

settings of following consonants. Velar stops palatalize to postalveolar affricates before /j/ /eː/ /ɛ/ /iː/ /ɪ/ and /ɛi/ /v/ becomes [f] before voiceless...

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IPA number
Selasa, 2026-07-14 05:35:56

convention, are assigned numbers in the 100 range. The tie-bars used to create affricate consonants are assigned numbers in the 400 and 500 ranges. The 200 range...

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Index of phonetics articles
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 14:10:44

ejective affricate (tsʼ) Alveolar ejective fricative (sʼ) Alveolar flap (ɾ) Alveolar lateral approximant (l, l̥) Alveolar lateral ejective affricate (tɬʼ)...

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Chhattisgarhi language
Minggu, 2026-08-09 23:25:31

Alveolar Retroflex Post-alv./ Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ɳ ɲ ŋ Stop/ Affricate voiceless p t ʈ tʃ k aspirated pʰ tʰ ʈʰ tʃʰ kʰ voiced b d ɖ dʒ ɡ breathy...

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Gemination
Senin, 2026-06-22 22:39:48

closure is lengthened. That is, /tʰː/ is pronounced [tːʰ], not *[tʰː]. In affricates, it is also the closure that is lengthened, not the fricative release...

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Proto-Turkic language
Senin, 2026-07-13 00:43:00

consonants (fortis vs. lenis), k, p, t vs. g, b, d. There was also an affricate consonant, č; at least one sibilant s and sonorants m, n, ń, ŋ, r, l with...

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Palatalization (phonetics)
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 13:33:18

voiced alveolar affricate [dzʲ] Ukrainian (dental), Kashmiri, Kildin Sámi (may also be geminate) palzd voiceless alveolar lateral affricate [tɬʲ] palzd voiceless...

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Voiceless pharyngeal fricative
Kamis, 2026-08-20 07:09:34

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Scouse
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 06:11:57

and ⟨θ̠⟩ is used for the latter two allophones. /k/ can turn into an affricate or a fricative, determined mostly by the quality of the preceding vowel...

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Chuukese language
Selasa, 2026-03-10 19:52:20

Palatal Velar plain lab. Nasal plain m mʷ n ŋ tense mː mːʷ ŋː Plosive/Affricate p pʷ t ʈʂ k Fricative plain f s tense fː sː Trill r Approximant w l j...

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Old East Slavic
Senin, 2026-07-20 00:57:54

Alveolar Palatal Velar Nasal m n nʲ Plosive voiceless p t k voiced b d ɡ Affricate voiceless t͡sʲ t͡ɕ voiced Fricative voiceless s ɕ, sʲ x voiced z ʑ Lateral...

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Early Modern English
Rabu, 2026-08-19 02:34:53

Dental Alveolar Palatal (-alveolar) Velar Glottal Nasal m n (ŋ) Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p t tʃ k voiced b d dʒ ɡ Fricative voiceless f θ s ʃ x ~ h voiced...

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Voiced alveolo-palatal fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-18 19:38:38

Its manner of articulation is sibilant (a subclass of fricatives and affricates), which means it is generally produced with a higher-frequency turbulence...

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Gaj's Latin alphabet
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:52:39

latinica. A problem is presented by the letter Đ/đ that represents the affricate [dʑ] (the same sound written as ⟨j⟩ in most romanizations of Japanese...

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Mirandese language
Minggu, 2026-08-02 00:52:57

and are spelled s(s) and s. Furthermore, there is an additional palatal affricate /tʃ/ ch that is distinct from the fricative /ʃ/, spelled x. The voiced...

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Guarani alphabet
Jumat, 2026-05-08 07:00:37

loanwords, Despite its spelling, the ⟨ch⟩ digraph is not the Spanish affricate sound [tʃ] (English ⟨ch⟩ as in teach), but an alveolo-palatal fricative...

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Cockney
Kamis, 2026-08-13 02:29:17

than in RP, and may often also involve some degree of affrication [pᶲʰ, tˢʰ, kˣʰ]. Affricatives may be encountered in initial, intervocalic, and final...

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Abkhazian Che
Selasa, 2026-02-17 04:50:57

alphabet of the Abkhaz language, where it represents the voiceless retroflex affricate /ʈʂ/. In the alphabet, it is placed between ⟨Ҷ⟩ and ⟨Ҿ⟩. The letter only...

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Ot Danum language
Selasa, 2026-05-19 21:45:39

Labial Alveolar (Alveolo-) palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ɲ ŋ Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p t t͡ɕ k voiced b d d͡ʑ g Fricative β (s) ɕ h Rhotic trill...

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Tobo-Kube language
Jumat, 2026-01-02 06:14:52

plosive p t k k͡p ʔ Voiced plosive b d ɡ ɡ͡b Nasal m n ŋ Voiceless affricate t͡s Voiced affricate d͡z Fricative f s h Trill r Lateral l Approximant j w...

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Nyaneka language
Senin, 2025-11-24 17:01:19

ᵐbʷ/. /s/ is heard as [ʃ] in the dialects spoken in Quilenges, Chilenge. Affricate sounds /tʃ, ᶮ̥tʃ, ᶮdʒ/ may also range to palatal plosive sounds [c, ᶮ̥c...

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Greek alphabet
Rabu, 2026-08-12 13:34:34

symbol in Americanist phonetic notation for the voiced alveolar lateral affricate is the Greek letter lambda ⟨λ⟩. This sound is ⟨dɮ⟩ in the IPA. Other Greek...

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Ḍād
Senin, 2026-07-27 20:53:18

voiced alveolar lateral fricative [ɮˤ] or a similar affricated sound [d͡ɮˤ] or [dˡˤ]. The affricated form is suggested by loans of ḍ into Akkadian as ld...

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Dzze
Selasa, 2026-07-07 23:23:05

Ossetic and Komi alphabets. It represents the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate [d͡ʑ]. It resembles the letter De with a tail of a small Ze. In Ossetian...

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Uruguayan Portuguese
Selasa, 2026-08-11 07:28:04

urban Brazilian Portuguese, such as a distinction between /ʎ/ and /j/, affrication of /t/ and /d/ before /i/ and /ĩ/, and other features of Brazilian broadcast...

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Prakrit
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 04:32:51

plosive or affricate. Elsewhere, the h /ɦ/ undergoes regressive assimilation by transforming into the aspirated equivalent of the plosive or affricate. The...

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Iñupiaq language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 07:28:11

particularly by younger speakers and learners, and is thus a case of affrication rather than simply palatalization. This section is supported by MacLean...

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Tswana language
Jumat, 2026-07-31 08:57:43

Glottal plain sibilant lateral Nasal m ⟨m⟩ n ⟨n⟩ ɲ ⟨ny⟩ ŋ ⟨ng⟩ Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p ⟨p⟩ t ⟨t⟩ ts ⟨ts⟩ tɬ ⟨tl⟩ tʃ ⟨tš⟩ k ⟨k⟩ voiced b ⟨b⟩ d ⟨d⟩...

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Malay language
Senin, 2026-08-17 13:52:28

Dental/ Alveolar Post‑alv./ Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ɲ ŋ Stop/ Affricate voiceless p t t͡ʃ k (ʔ) voiced b d d͡ʒ ɡ Fricative voiceless (f) s (ʃ)...

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Voiceless postalveolar fricative
Selasa, 2026-08-18 20:07:18

Its manner of articulation is sibilant (a subclass of fricatives and affricates), which means it is generally produced with a higher-frequency turbulence...

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Tai languages
Rabu, 2026-06-10 20:49:19

and /ɯə/ in Tianzhou and Wuming, and the lack of aspirated stops and affricates, which are found everywhere in Tai proper. Li Fang-Kuei divided Tai into...

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Velar consonant
Kamis, 2026-07-30 01:47:04

Coastal Salish, Salish-Spokane-Kalispel, and Chemakum, *k went further and affricated to [tʃ]. Likewise, historical *k’ has become [tʃʼ] and historical *x has...

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Halbi language
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 02:56:18

vowel nasalization. /n/ is heard as a palatal [ɲ] when preceding palatal affricates, and as retroflex [ɳ] when before retroflex stops. Voiced retroflex stops...

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Voiced dental and alveolar lateral approximants
Rabu, 2026-08-19 18:36:17

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Ukrainian alphabet
Selasa, 2026-06-30 17:00:48

consonant. The digraphs дз and дж are normally used to represent single affricates /d͡z/ and /d͡ʒ/. Palatalization of consonants before е, у, а is indicated...

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Yiddish
Senin, 2026-07-27 20:15:17

Yiddish. Yiddish deaffricates the Middle High German voiceless labiodental affricate /pf/ to /f/ initially (as in פֿונט funt, but this pronunciation is also...

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Jalapa Mazatec
Selasa, 2026-06-02 23:31:00

position, the stop /kʷʰ/ is realized as a heterorganic velar-bilabial affricate [kɸ]. Phonetically aspirated fricatives do not occur before creaky vowels...

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Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 03:19:15

were four pairs of voiceless versus voiced sibilants: dental/alveolar affricates /t͡s/ vs. /d͡z/ (spelled ⟨c⟩ or ⟨ç⟩ vs. ⟨z⟩); dental/alveolar fricatives...

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Diacritic
Senin, 2026-08-17 13:01:06

front vowels), two letters with a cedilla (⟨Ç⟩ and ⟨Ş⟩, representing the affricate /tʃ/ and the fricative /ʃ/), and also possesses a dotted capital ⟨İ⟩ (and...

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Slavic languages
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:30:11

languages. The extensive series of palatal consonants, along with the affricates *ts and *dz, developed through a series of palatalizations that happened...

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Voiced retroflex trill
Rabu, 2026-08-05 22:54:00

vowels. Several languages have been reported to have trilled retroflex affricates, such as [ɳɖ͡ɽ̝] and [ʈ͡ɽ̝̊], including Mapudungun, Malagasy, Fijian,...

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Approximant
Selasa, 2026-08-04 15:23:05

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Jamaica, Queens
Senin, 2026-08-17 12:57:35

retained the Dutch spelling but replaced the semivowel sound with the affricate [dʒ] sound that the letter "j" usually represents in English. The name...

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Proto-Slavic language
Senin, 2026-08-17 15:50:06

spelling. Some notes and exceptions: *c denotes a voiceless alveolar affricate [t͡s]. *dz was its voiced counterpart [d͡z]. As they came from palatalization...

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Numic languages
Minggu, 2026-04-26 07:41:25

some of these clusters. Geminated stops and affricates are voiceless, and non-geminated stops and affricates are voiced fricatives. The velar nasals have...

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Retroflex consonant
Jumat, 2026-08-14 12:15:29

(postalveolar), or the hard palate (palatal). Finally, both sibilant (fricative or affricate) and nonsibilant (stop, nasal, lateral, rhotic) consonants can have a...

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Nyaduʼ language
Minggu, 2026-07-12 03:00:24

is a Dayak language of Borneo. Sounds /c, ɟ/ may also be pronounced as affricates as [cç, ɟʝ] or [tʃ, dʒ]. Vowels are heard as /i, e, a, o, u/. Nyaduʼ at...

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Z with descender
Minggu, 2026-07-26 16:09:02

alphabet for the Dungan language[citation needed] to represent the voiceless retroflex affricate [tʂ] or the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate [tɕ]. v t e...

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Old Saxon
Senin, 2026-07-20 01:06:16

k that have been shifted in Old High German to various fricatives and affricates. The Germanic diphthongs ai, au consistently develop into long vowels...

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Korean language
Kamis, 2026-08-20 05:15:49

the Korean language). This occurs with the tense fricative and all the affricates as well. At the end of a syllable, /s/ changes to /t/ (example: beoseot...

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Pahlavi scripts
Kamis, 2026-07-02 18:20:41

widespread Iranian lenition processes, whereby postvocalic voiceless stops and affricates had become voiced, and voiced stops had become semivowels. Similarly,...

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Swazi language
Rabu, 2026-06-24 20:08:58

ejective pʼ tʼ kʼ~k̬ aspirated pʰ tʰ kʰ breathy bʱ dʱ ɡʱ implosive ɓ Affricate voiceless tf tsʼ~tsʰ tʃʼ kxʼ voiced dv dzʱ dʒʱ Fricative voiceless f s...

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South Cushitic languages
Minggu, 2026-02-01 19:11:06

sibilant affricate: Sandawe /ǀiŋ/ 'snake'; — Alagwa /tsʼiima/, Burunge /tʃʼiima/ 'python', Kwʼadza /tsʼeema/ Lateral click → lateral affricate: Sandawe...

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Leet
Jumat, 2026-08-07 21:43:41

sometimes spelled t3h. j00 takes the place of "you", originating from the affricate sound that occurs in place of the palatal approximant, /j/, when you follows...

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Tonga language (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
Senin, 2026-07-20 22:10:44

can also be heard as a tap sound [ɾ] in free variation. Post-alveolar affricates /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ, ⁿd͡ʒ/ can also be heard as palatal stops [c, ɟ, ᶮɟ] in free...

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Yemeni Arabic
Minggu, 2026-08-16 04:05:34

characterised by its pronunciation of the voiced palatal plosive (or affricate) (ج) as the semi-vowel (ي) (y) ([j]). In this it resembles some Eastern...

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Dzongkha
Senin, 2026-08-03 00:35:26

onset must be a combination of an unaspirated bilabial stop and a palatal affricate. The bilabial stops in complex onsets are often omitted in colloquial...

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Varieties of Arabic
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:02:06

less noticeable than for vowels. Emphasis spreading does not affect the affrication of non-emphatic /t/ in Moroccan Arabic, with the result that these two...

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Indian English
Jumat, 2026-08-14 04:45:21

sibilant. In case of the postalveolar affricates /tʃ/ /dʒ/, native languages like Hindi have corresponding affricates articulated from the palatal region...

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Aegyo
Jumat, 2026-06-26 01:37:06

simply "acting cute", and includes several changes to speech, such as affrication, stopping, and /j/ insertion. Aegyo is essentially baby talk, with these...

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Kazakh language
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 11:50:44

t͡ɕ/ are found only in loanwords. /ʒ/ is heard as an alveolo-palatal affricate [d͡ʒ] in the Kazakh dialects of Uzbekistan and China. The sounds [q] and...

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Ch'ari
Senin, 2026-03-16 13:55:07

it has a value of 5000. Ch'ari represents the postalveolar ejective affricate [tʃʼ]. It is typically romanized with the digraphs Ch, and Chʼ, or with...

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Arcadia (regional unit)
Rabu, 2026-07-22 09:47:39

alphabet occurring only in Arcadia, shaped like Cyrillic И; it represents an affricate that developed from labiovelars in context where they became t in other...

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Chamorro language
Minggu, 2026-06-28 15:23:14

Chamorro consonants; all are unaspirated. /w/ does not occur initially. Affricates /t̪͡s̪ d̪͡z̪/ can be realized as palatal [t͡ʃ d͡ʒ] before non-low front...

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Theories of Pashtun origin
Selasa, 2026-06-16 11:13:08

of the word initial stops of the Avestan and fronting of the palatal affricates to dental-alveolar position as its most defining characteristics of historical...

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Mundabli-Mufu language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 08:46:43

Velar Plain Labial Nasal m n̪ ɲ ŋ Plosive voiceless t̪ k voiced b d̪ g Affricate voiceless t̪s̪ tʃ kp voiced d̪z̪ dʒ gb Fricative f s̪ ʃ Approximant l̪...

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Voiced pharyngeal fricative
Senin, 2026-08-17 21:12:26

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Allophone
Rabu, 2026-08-19 04:49:57

two") are only briefly voiced during the articulation. Voiced stops and affricates /b, d, ɡ, dʒ/ in fact occur as partially devoiced at the beginning of...

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Pinyin
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 20:48:06

unaspirated b [p] d [t] g [k] aspirated p [pʰ] t [tʰ] k [kʰ] Nasal m [m] n [n] Affricate unaspirated z [ts] zh [ʈʂ] j [tɕ] aspirated c [tsʰ] ch [ʈʂʰ] q [tɕʰ] Fricative...

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Retroflex ejective affricate
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 02:30:43

A retroflex ejective affricate is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents...

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Zulu language
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 06:10:02

lengthened phrase- or sentence-finally. The plain voiceless plosives, affricates and clicks are realised phonetically as ejectives [pʼ], [tʼ], [kʼ], [tsʼ]...

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ß
Senin, 2026-08-10 01:35:21

in the word, and spelled ⟨s⟩. Given that ⟨z⟩ could also represent the affricate [ts], some attempts were made to differentiate the sounds by spelling...

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Nepali language
Jumat, 2026-08-07 17:50:13

Khatiwada, R. (2007). "Phonetic realization of contrastively aspirated affricates in Nepali." In Proceedings of ICPhS XVI (Saarbrücken, 6–10 August 2007)...

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Mehri language
Kamis, 2026-06-18 02:48:53

languages. The consonant inventory is as follows: /ɡ/ can be realized as an affricate [dʒ] or palatal plosive [ɟ] in the Yemeni dialect. Mahriyōt dialect in...

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Kokborok
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 19:42:18

onset of the affricates may weaken or fully neutralize /tʃ(ʰ), dʒ/ → [ʃ, ʒ], and may also front /tʃ, dʒ/ → [ts, dz]. For the voiced affricate, both neutralization...

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Isnag language
Selasa, 2025-12-16 23:54:09

Consonants Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ɲ ŋ Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p t tʃ k ʔ voiced b d dʒ ɡ Fricative f v s ʃ h Approximant l...

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Lenition
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 15:18:56

changes: shortening of double consonants, affrication of stops, spirantization or assibilation of stops or affricates, debuccalization, and finally elision...

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Cree language
Minggu, 2026-06-21 12:07:26

but in other dialects only for loanwords. The stops, p, t, k, and the affricate, c, can be pronounced either voiced or unvoiced, but the symbols used...

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Che with hook
Selasa, 2026-03-10 00:44:25

the Cyrillic script. It represents a voiced or voiceless postalveolar affricate. It has been used for the Surgut dialect of Eastern Khanty and the Tofa...

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Phonological history of French
Senin, 2026-08-10 02:25:09

sounds: /kʲ/ and /tj/ merge as an affricate /tsʲ/ (treated as a single sound). The double version of this affricate, /ttsʲ/, is the regular outcome of...

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Vowel
Selasa, 2026-08-11 01:55:48

as sī and zhī are sometimes described as being syllabic fricatives and affricates phonemically, /ś/ and /tʂ́/, but these do have a voiced segment that carries...

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Received Pronunciation
Minggu, 2026-08-16 20:52:33

Labial Dental Alveolar Post- alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ŋ Stop p b t d k ɡ Affricate tʃ dʒ Fricative f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ h Approximant l r j w...

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Maldivian language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 12:29:06

Dental/ Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n (ɳ) (ɲ) Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p t̪ ʈ t͡ʃ k voiced b d̪ ɖ d͡ʒ ɡ prenasal ᵐb ⁿd̪ ᶯɖ ᵑɡ Fricative...

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S. L. Wong (phonetic symbols)
Jumat, 2026-01-30 18:52:08

role in distinguishing meanings. Since there are no voiced plosive and affricative consonants in Cantonese, the scheme makes use of these unused voiced...

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Alphabetical order
Senin, 2026-06-29 19:05:25

of the mouth, and from negative to positive voice-onset time, then the affricates, fricatives, liquids, and nasals: A, AU, E, I, O, U, B, F, P, V, D, J...

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Punjabi language
Selasa, 2026-08-18 19:24:46

Velar Uvular Glottal Nasal m ਮ م n ਨ ن ɳ ਣ ݨ (ɲ) ਞ ن٘ (ŋ) ਙ ن٘ Stop/ Affricate tenuis p ਪ پ t̪ ਤ ت ʈ ਟ ٹ t͡ʃ ਚ چ k ਕ ک (q ਕ਼ ق) aspirated pʰ ਫ پھ tʰ...

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Close-mid back rounded vowel
Selasa, 2026-08-11 18:11:06

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Griko language
Minggu, 2026-08-02 23:06:38

ⁿt, ᵑk] also are heard. The cacuminal /ɖ/ may also be realized as an affricate [ɖːʐ], and consonant sequences /tr/ and /tːr/ may be pronounced as [ʈʂ]...

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Icelandic orthography
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:34:54

was only present for etymological reasons. It originally represented an affricate [t͡s], which arose from the combinations ⟨t⟩+⟨s⟩, ⟨d⟩+⟨s⟩, ⟨ð⟩+⟨s⟩; however...

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Malayalam
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 12:25:26

Nasal m മ ⟨m⟩ n̪ ന ⟨n⟩ n ന / ഩ ⟨ṉ⟩ ɳ ണ ⟨ṇ⟩ ɲ ഞ ⟨ñ⟩ ŋ, (ŋʲ) ങ ⟨ṅ⟩ Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p പ ⟨p⟩ t̪ ത ⟨t⟩ t റ്റ ⟨ṟṟ⟩ ʈ ട ⟨ṭ⟩ t͡ɕ~t͡ʃ ച ⟨c⟩ k, (kʲ) ക...

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Voiced dental fricative
Senin, 2026-08-17 21:20:29

'to sweep' Burmese အညာသား [ʔəɲàðá] 'inlander' Commonly realized as an affricate [d̪͡ð]. Bengali দ়বাই [ðɔbɐi] ˈslaughter' Only occurs in loanwords. See...

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Ch (digraph)
Kamis, 2026-04-02 23:34:03

ch is used to represent voiceless alveo-palatal affricate /tɕ/ and voiceless denti-alveolar affricate /ts/ in romanization from the Devanagari script...

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Voiced dental and alveolar taps and flaps
Selasa, 2026-08-18 10:38:58

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Ghomalaʼ language
Rabu, 2025-12-24 21:38:59

sound, are realized as affricated [p͡ɸ b͡β t͡θ d͡ð k͡x]. /ɡ/, when occurring before central vowel sounds /ə ɐ/, may sound affricated as [ɡ͡ɣ]. A word-final...

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Taiwanese Hokkien
Jumat, 2026-08-14 07:01:08

are no native labiodental phonemes (i.e. [f], [v], [ʋ], etc.). Coronal affricates and fricatives become alveolo-palatal before /i/, that is, /dzi/, /tsi/...

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Port Erin
Selasa, 2026-03-31 05:51:54

Purt Çhiarn is explained through the palatalization of plosive /t/ into affricate /tʃ/, resulting a pronunciation like [poːrˈtʃɑːrn]. The -eann ending was...

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Gallo language
Rabu, 2026-08-12 22:22:23

plosives c and ɟ, that is, a k and a g accompanied by a slight j, and the affricates dʒ and tʃ in the western part of Upper Brittany. In that area, the word...

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Twi-Fante language
Jumat, 2026-08-14 22:27:18

palatalized (or labio-palatalized), and the stops are to some extent affricated. The allophones of /n/ are quite complex. In the table below, palatalized...

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Khana language
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:58:16

Nasal m n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ Plosive voiceless p t k kʷ k͡p ʔ voiced b d ɡ ɡʷ ɡ͡b Affricate d͡ʒ Fricative voiceless f s h voiced β z ɣ Trill r Approximant l j w...

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Piedmontese language
Jumat, 2026-07-10 02:43:31

CATHÉDRA > careja. Latin /k/-/g/ before front vowels, became post-alveolar affricates /t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/, then /t͡s/ and /d͡z/ due to typical Western Romance assibilation...

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Sound change
Kamis, 2026-08-06 06:04:50

becoming an affricate or fricative. Fortition: the opposite of lenition, "strengthening" a consonant, e.g. an approximant becoming an affricate or fricative...

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Tsonga language
Selasa, 2026-07-28 19:21:59

alternate the place of articulation. A number of Tsonga speakers vary the affricates from alveolar [ts], [tsʰ], [dz], [dzʱ], [dzʷʱ] to retroflex [tʂ], [tʂʰ]...

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Voiced retroflex nasal
Senin, 2026-08-17 21:13:40

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Geʽez script
Jumat, 2026-07-31 19:35:41

Consonant b [b] t [t] d [d] ṭ [tʼ] በ ተ ደ ጠ Affricated variant v [v] č [t͡ʃ] ǧ [d͡ʒ] č̣ [t͡ʃʼ] ቨ ቸ ጀ ጨ...

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Awadhi language
Kamis, 2026-08-20 10:21:12

Velar Glottal Nasal unaspirated m n (ɳ) (ɲ) (ŋ) aspirated mʱ nʱ Plosive/ Affricate voiceless unaspirated p t ʈ tʃ k aspirated pʰ tʰ ʈʰ tʃʰ kʰ voiced unaspirated...

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Consonant
Senin, 2026-08-17 23:51:50

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Breve
Senin, 2026-08-10 20:03:09

Cyrillic alphabet uses a breve on Ӂ to represent a voiced postalveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/ (corresponding to ⟨g⟩ before a front vowel in the Latin script for...

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Dze
Minggu, 2026-07-26 09:44:41

script, used in the Macedonian alphabet to represent the voiced alveolar affricate /d͡z/, similar to the pronunciation of ⟨ds⟩ in "needs" or "kids" in English...

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English phonology
Kamis, 2026-08-13 23:34:13

phonological features that distinguish fortis and lenis consonants (stops, affricates, and fricatives). Phonological analysis of English often concentrates...

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Polish phonology
Jumat, 2026-07-17 02:48:08

such as contrasting postalveolar and alveolo-palatal fricatives and affricates. The vowel system is relatively simple, with just six oral monophthongs...

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Hungarian phonology
Senin, 2026-08-10 13:15:34

whether the palatal consonant pair consists of stops or affricates. They are considered affricates or stops, depending on register, by Tamás Szende, head...

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Ghanaian English
Jumat, 2026-06-19 23:35:20

alveolo-palatal affricate [tɕ] is the usual realisation of /tʃ/ (as in "cheese" and ""watching") and the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate [dʑ] is the usual...

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Qoph
Sabtu, 2026-06-13 07:20:12

and in Gulf Arabic, it is sometimes pronounced as a voiced postalveolar affricate [d͡ʒ], even in loanwords from Modern Standard Arabic or when speaking...

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Mauritian Creole
Senin, 2026-07-06 20:32:01

Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Plosive Voiceless p t t̠ʲ k Voiced b d d̠ʲ ɡ Affricate Voiceless (tʃ) Voiced (dʒ) Nasal Voiced m n ɲ ŋ Fricative Voiceless f...

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Tsat language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:31:43

also be pronounced as [tɕ, ɕ] when before /i/. However, the palatalised affricate [tɕ] is generally found in Mandarin borrowings; it is only attested in...

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Sundanese language
Rabu, 2026-08-19 08:18:21

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n ɲ ŋ Plosive/ Affricate voiceless p t t͜ɕ k voiced b d d͜ʑ ɡ Fricative s h Lateral l Trill r Approximant...

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Open central unrounded vowel
Senin, 2026-08-17 19:48:30

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Palochka
Selasa, 2026-08-11 10:16:49

[kʼaˈɬaze], "to speak" In Chechen, the palochka makes a preceding stop or affricate ejective if voiceless, or pharyngealized if voiced, but also represents...

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Nasalization
Senin, 2026-07-20 15:59:58

fricative, perhaps a palatal [ʝ̃]. In Coatzospan Mixtec, fricatives and affricates are nasalized before nasal vowels even when they are voiceless. In Hupa...

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Northern Sotho
Selasa, 2026-08-18 21:23:53

lateral Nasal m n ɲ ŋ Plosive ejective pʼ tʼ tˡʼ kʼ aspirated pʰ tʰ tˡʰ kʰ Affricate ejective tsʼ tʃʼ aspirated tsʰ tʃʰ kxʰ Fricative voiceless f s ɬ ʃ h~ɦ...

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Urban Qatari Arabic
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 17:46:00

Examples include the preference for the glide /j/ over the bedouin voiced affricate /d͡ʒ/ pronouncing, for instance, /rajːal/ instead of /rad͡ʒːal/. This...

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Bangladeshi English
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 06:18:46

emerges as a bilabial /b/ or /β/. The voiced alveolar /z/ phoneme is often affricated to /dʒ/, resulting in the pronunciation of words like "zoo" as /dʒuː/...

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Lepsius Standard Alphabet
Kamis, 2026-07-23 20:21:08

Either convention may be used for voiceless sonorants: m̒ [m̥], ‘l [ɬ]. Affricates are generally written as sequences, e.g. tš for [t͡ʃ]. But the single...

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Paicî language
Senin, 2026-05-04 16:47:25

syllables are restricted to (C)V. The palatal stops could be considered affricates because they occur with a heavily fricated release. The lateral and tap...

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Ewe language
Selasa, 2026-08-04 12:16:03

Glottal Plosive voiceless p t̪ k k͡p voiced m ~ b d̪ n ~ ɖ ŋ ~ ɡ ɡ͡b Affricate voiceless t͡s voiced d͡z Fricative voiceless ɸ f s x voiced β v z ɣ ~...

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Voiced dental and alveolar trills
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:34:07

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Chokwe language
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 21:38:32

Vowels may also be heard as nasalized when preceding nasal consonants. Affricate sounds /t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ, ⁿd͡ʒ/ may also be pronounced as palatal stops [c, ɟ...

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Syriac alphabet
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 00:22:43

[ɡ] to [d͡ʒ] (voiced palato-alveolar affricate) Added below kāp̄: [k] to [t͡ʃ] (voiceless palato-alveolar affricate) Added above or below zayn: [z] to [ʒ]...

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Syllabic consonant
Rabu, 2026-08-12 21:39:41

liquids. Very few have syllabic obstruents (i.e., stops, fricatives, and affricates) in normal words, but English has syllabic fricatives in paralinguistic...

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Voiceless bilabial plosive
Senin, 2026-08-17 16:33:13

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Ż
Rabu, 2026-07-29 10:30:42

with the letter ⟨z⟩, which represents the voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate [ts], like in the word "hats". The corresponding letter in Arabic in this...

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Proto-Indo-Iranian language
Kamis, 2026-08-13 05:08:02

Proto-Indo-Iranian is hypothesized to have contained two series of stops or affricates in the palatal to postalveolar region. The phonetic nature of this contrast...

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Wymysorys
Minggu, 2026-08-02 16:57:01

The voiced affricates /d͡z, d̠͡z̠, d͡ʒ, d͡ʑ/ are only heard in Polish loanwords. A series of flat post-alveolar sibilants and affricates [s̠, z̠, t̠͡s̠...

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Open front unrounded vowel
Rabu, 2026-08-12 08:40:33

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Modern Greek phonology
Minggu, 2026-05-24 23:02:16

adapted from Arvaniti (2007, p. 7), who considers the palatals and both affricates, [t͡s] and [d͡z], to be allophonic. The alveolar nasal /n/ is assimilated...

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Jasz people
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 19:13:55

a voiceless s sound, while Greek zeta represented originally a voiced affricate (dz), or a combination of fricative and stop (zd), and the initial j in...

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Slavey language
Kamis, 2026-03-26 11:14:48

velar, the ejective member is replaced by a /ʔw/ sequence, the aspirated affricate has turned into a fricative /f/, and both the voiceless and voiced fricatives...

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Voiced velar plosive
Selasa, 2026-08-18 07:41:29

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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ISO 11940-2
Rabu, 2026-04-01 23:38:04

the retention of the aspiration characteristic of the alveolo-palatal affricate. So while Thai ฉ, ช, and ฌ, are represented by ⟨ch⟩ as in RTGS, the Thai...

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Sichuanese dialects
Kamis, 2026-06-04 08:13:21

Plosive plain /p/ b 贝 /t/ d 得 /k/ g 古 aspirated /pʰ/ p 配 /tʰ/ t 套 /kʰ/ k 可 Affricate plain /ts/ z 早 /tɕ/ j 价 aspirated /tsʰ/ c 草 /tɕʰ/ q 巧 Nasal /m/ m 没 /n/...

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Khoekhoe language
Selasa, 2026-06-23 09:00:42

Between vowels, /p/ is pronounced [β] and /t/ is pronounced [ɾ]. The affricate series is strongly aspirated, and may be analysed phonemically as aspirated...

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Voiceless dental fricative
Rabu, 2026-08-19 22:07:57

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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TS
Selasa, 2026-07-28 21:07:26

affricate (⟨t͡s⟩, ⟨t͜s⟩, or ⟨ʦ⟩), a type of consonantal sound Tse (Cyrillic) (Ц ц), the Cyrillic letter representing the voiceless alveolar affricate...

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Voiced bilabial fricative
Kamis, 2026-08-20 10:23:42

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Low German
Kamis, 2026-08-13 09:10:23

younger speakers. The sound /j/ can also be realized as fricative or affricate sounds [ʝ~ʑ~ʒ], [dʒ], in word-initial position. [ɒ] and [ɐ] can occur...

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Proto-Basque language
Selasa, 2026-07-14 06:47:43

positional restrictions of Proto-Basque explain why the Common Romance affricate in /tselu/ 'sky' (< Classical Latin caelum) became a fricative in Basque...

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Herero language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:34:53

Labial Dental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n̪ n ɲ Plosive/ Affricate plain p t̪ t tʃ k prenasal ᵐb ⁿd̪ ⁿd ⁿdʒ ᵑɡ Fricative voiceless (f) θ (s)...

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Chechen language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 09:15:05

the literary register, and even then only for some speakers, the voiced affricates /dz/, /dʒ/ have merged into the fricatives /z/, /ʒ/. A voiceless labial...

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Voiceless glottal fricative
Kamis, 2026-07-09 00:30:57

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Hmong language
Kamis, 2026-07-23 03:39:03

differences, such as the voicing of prenasalized stops, or whether /c/ is an affricate or /h/ is velar, may be a matter of transcription.) Aspirates, voiceless...

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Dental consonant
Senin, 2026-05-11 16:09:22

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Voiced dental and alveolar nasals
Rabu, 2026-08-19 18:29:12

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Atsugewi language
Selasa, 2026-08-11 08:40:31

consonants. Most of these form pairs of plain and glottalized. Plosives and affricates also have a third, aspirated member of the series (except for the single...

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Buwal language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 08:30:17

Palatalization in Buwal occurs across an entire word, and also affects the affricate consonants /ts dz ⁿdz/, which surface as [tʃ dʒ ⁿdʒ] in a palatalized...

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Aikanã language
Senin, 2026-08-10 07:31:39

ⁿ̪ð] and /w, ɾ, h/ become [w̃, ɾ̃, h̃]. /t̪͡s, d͡ð/ are only heard as affricates [t̪͡s, d͡ð] in word-initial position. Elsewhere, they are heard as a fricatives...

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Esperanto
Senin, 2026-08-17 02:57:41

Wennergren considers ⟨nj⟩ to be a simple sequence of /n/ + /j/. The uncommon affricate /d͜z/ does not have a distinct letter in the orthography, but is written...

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Tempering (spices)
Senin, 2026-08-10 21:28:40

tuṛkā (तुड़का) in Garhwali. Another root beginning with an aspirated affricate is čhaunk (छौंक) in Hindi. In parts of the Arab world; similar tempering...

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Bengali alphabet
Rabu, 2026-08-12 23:49:12

depending on dialect) in modern standard Bengali. The voiced palato-alveolar affricate /dʒ/ can be written in two ways: as য (অন্তঃস্থ য ôntôḥsthô yô 'semivocalic...

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Dzzhe
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 03:41:45

distinguish the affricate /d͜ʒ/ from the sequence d-ž in some phonetic dictionaries. This letter represents the voiced palato-alveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/ (j as...

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German language
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 19:39:12

(geminated) voiceless fricatives following a vowel; Voiceless stops became affricates in word-initial position, or following certain consonants; Voiced stops...

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Sylheti language
Senin, 2026-08-17 00:01:04

allophone of /x/ when preceded by high vowels /i, u/. The post-alveolar affricates have spirantised to alveolar fricatives (tʃ → s; tʃʰ → s; dʒ → z; dʒʱ...

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Alsatian dialect
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 20:06:07

Labial Alveolar Postalveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal Nasal m n ŋ Stop b̥ d̥ ɡ̊ kʰ Affricate pf ts tʃ Fricative f v s ʃ ç (x) ʁ h Approximant ʋ l j...

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Voiced dental and alveolar plosives
Senin, 2026-08-17 20:34:38

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Caddo language
Kamis, 2026-07-30 11:09:18

articles. Caddo has a glottalization process by which any voiceless stop or affricate (except p) becomes an ejective when it is followed by a glottal stop....

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Aromanian language
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 21:47:26

Velar Glottal central sibilant Stop voiceless p t c k voiced b d ɟ ɡ Affricate voiceless t͡s t͡ʃ voiced d͡z d͡ʒ Fricative voiceless f θ s ʃ [ç] x (h)...

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Tenuis consonant
Senin, 2026-02-16 10:52:37

sky). For most languages, the distinction is relevant only for stops and affricates. However, a few languages have analogous series for fricatives. Mazahua...

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South Slavic languages
Selasa, 2026-08-18 22:07:02

loss of yer after a liquid consonant. Hardening of palatals and dental affricates; e.g. š' > š, č' > č, c' > c. South Slavic form of liquid metathesis (CoRC...

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Romanian language
Senin, 2026-08-17 11:55:24

example, as in English. As in Italian, the letters c and g represent the affricates /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ before i and e, and /k/ and /ɡ/ elsewhere. When /k/ and...

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Koreanic languages
Senin, 2026-08-17 20:24:33

three-way contrast between plain, aspirated and reinforced stops and affricates, but Proto-Korean is reconstructed with a single set, like Proto-Japonic...

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Daniel Everett
Rabu, 2026-08-19 01:13:42

languages in the world to use the rare voiceless dental bilabially trilled affricate (phonetically, [t̪͡ʙ̥]). Everett has conducted field research on many...

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Standard Chinese
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 09:21:10

"Places of articulation: An investigation of Pekingese fricatives and affricates", Journal of Phonetics, 12 (3): 267–278, doi:10.1016/S0095-4470(19)30883-6...

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Bzhedug dialect
Selasa, 2026-08-11 10:43:20

п [p], пI [pʼ] : The consonant н [n] is dropped before postalveolar affricates дж [d͡ʒ], ч [t͡ʃ], кI [t͡ʃʼ] and before alveolar stops д [d], т [t], тI...

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Metathesis (linguistics)
Kamis, 2026-07-30 12:11:51

old"); with assimilation of the T of the conjugation. Voiceless alveolar affricate: root t͡slm צלם = hit͡stallēm הִצְטַלֵּם ("he had a photograph of him...

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Tinglish
Jumat, 2026-07-24 14:44:11

/tɕ/: "goal" → /kōː/, "zip" → /síp/, "jam" → /tɕɛ̄ːm/. /ʃ/ becomes the affricate /tɕʰ/: "shirt" → /tɕʰɤ́ːt/. The "th" sounds /θ/ and /ð/ are replaced by...

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Kaingang language
Selasa, 2026-06-23 08:54:13

The non-glottal fricatives can word-initially be optionally realized as affricates [p͡ɸ, c͡ç] (including their nasal allophones: [p͡ɸ̃, c͡ç̃].) /w/ can optionally...

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Klingon language
Senin, 2026-07-13 08:00:04

pre-nasalized oral stops [mb] and [ɳɖ] In the Morskan dialect: /t͡ɬ/ is a central affricate [t͡s] /x/ is realized as glottal [h] syllable-initially and deleted syllable-finally...

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Blackfoot language
Kamis, 2026-07-30 23:10:41

/x/, /j/ and /w/ form pairs distinguished by length. One of the two affricates /k͡s/ is unusual for being heterorganic. Blackfoot has several allophones:...

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Afroasiatic languages
Kamis, 2026-08-13 04:33:02

fricatives; some branches have additional types of consonants such as affricates and lateral consonants. Afroasiatic languages tend to have pharyngeal...

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Near-open front unrounded vowel
Senin, 2026-08-17 16:56:36

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Voiced alveolar approximant
Senin, 2026-08-17 21:44:22

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Jju language
Rabu, 2026-04-29 21:42:07

phonetically occur among stops. Tense stops /kː ɡː/ may also be heard as affricates [k͡x, ɡ͡ɣ]. List of vocabulary relating to body parts. zwuoi - nose shog...

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Amis language
Selasa, 2026-07-28 10:02:58

word-final allophone of /ʜ/. The voiceless plosives /p t k ʡ/ and the affricate /t͡s/ are released in clusters, so that cecay "one" is pronounced [t͡sᵊt͡saj];...

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Proto-Yoruboid language
Senin, 2026-08-10 23:23:10

Nasal *m *n *ɲ *ŋm Plosive *p, *b, bʲ *t, *d *c *k, *g *kp, *gb *kʷ *gʷ Affricate *dʒ Fricative *s *ʃ *ɣ Implosive *ɓ *ɗ Trill *r Aproximant *l *j *w...

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Somali language
Kamis, 2026-08-20 00:09:57

voiceless t̪ ⟨t⟩ k ⟨k⟩ q ⟨q⟩ ʔ ⟨'⟩ voiced b † ⟨b⟩ d̪ † ⟨d⟩ ɖ ⟨dh⟩ ɡ †⟨g⟩ Affricate d͡ʒ ⟨j⟩ Fricative voiceless f ⟨f⟩ s ⟨s⟩ ʃ ⟨sh⟩ x ⟨kh⟩ (χ) ħ ⟨x⟩ h ⟨h⟩...

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International auxiliary language
Jumat, 2026-08-07 02:36:32

(U+0261, IPA 110, single storey g) = g (U+0067, double storey g) Four are affricates, each represented in IPA by two letters and a combining marker. They are...

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Sha (Cyrillic)
Senin, 2026-02-16 06:21:50

voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ sh Mongolian 28th voiceless postalveolar affricate /ʃ/ š Kazakh 34th voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative /ɕ/ ş Kyrgyz 29th...

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Fraktur
Senin, 2026-06-15 23:18:15

variants of ⟨s⟩ and ⟨ſ⟩ distinguish voiced and unvoiced sibilants or affricates (⟨S ſ⟩ for voiced [z], ⟨Ꞩ ẜ⟩ for unvoiced [s], ⟨ſch⟩ [ž] / ⟨ẜch⟩ [š],...

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Kaph
Kamis, 2026-07-30 03:28:56

rural Palestinian and Iraqi, it is pronounced as a voiceless postalveolar affricate [t͡ʃ]. In Arabic, kāf, when used as a prefix كَـ ka, functions as a comparative...

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Old Occitan
Senin, 2026-07-20 23:21:56

summarised as follows: Notes: Written ⟨ch⟩ is believed to have represented the affricate [tʃ], but since the spelling often alternates with ⟨c⟩, it may also have...

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Table of vowels
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:33:13

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Lango language (Uganda)
Minggu, 2026-05-24 16:35:05

in the stops, affricates, nasals and lateral. Voiceless stops and affricates are slightly aspirated, whereas voiced stops and affricates are fully voiced...

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South Estonian
Senin, 2026-08-03 13:19:36

ISSN 0355-0230. Retrieved 2009-05-28. Note that reconstructed *č and *c stand for affricates [t͡ʃ], [t͡s]. South Estonian literary language @google scholar Sutton...

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Taa language
Selasa, 2026-07-21 14:05:59

is voice lead followed by an ejected stop followed by an ejected velar affricate. kχʼ is [kχʼ] or [kχʼq]." ⟨Ʞ⟩ is a wildcard letter for any click, or in...

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Shtokavian
Rabu, 2026-07-08 15:40:11

word-initial u- becoming v- (e.g. vuho, vuzel, vozek) dephonemicization of affricates /č/ and /ć/ to some form of middle value genitive plural of masculine...

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Yatê
Senin, 2026-08-17 02:10:08

allophone of any other phoneme. Costa (1999) does not consider it a phoneme. Affricates in Yatê are considered complex sounds by Costa (1999). /h/ is articulated...

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Postalveolar consonant
Rabu, 2026-07-22 09:55:51

Northern Qiang and Southern Qiang, which make such a distinction among affricates (but only a two-way distinction among fricatives) and the Northwest Caucasian...

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Open-mid back rounded vowel
Senin, 2026-08-17 18:05:52

d̼ t̪ d̪ t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k ɡ q ɢ ʡ ʔ Sibilant affricate t̪s̪ d̪z̪ ts dz t̠ʃ d̠ʒ tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ Non-sibilant affricate pɸ bβ p̪f b̪v t̪θ d̪ð tɹ̝̊ dɹ̝ t̠ɹ̠̊˔ d̠ɹ̠˔...

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Cyrillic alphabets
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 16:03:24

Belarusian alphabet in some publications. These digraphs represent the affricates Дж /d͡ʒ/ and Дз /d͡z/ correspondingly. Before 1933, the letter Ґ ґ (Ge)...

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Southern Pashto
Selasa, 2025-06-03 05:00:26

other dialects, they have shifted to ʃ/x and ʒ/g). Kandahari also has the affricates /t͡s/ and /d͡z/. According to the "Pashto Dialectal Dictionary (Pashto:...

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Cimbrian language
Jumat, 2026-07-24 10:08:53

alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal Nasal m n   ɲː* ŋ Stop p b t d k ɡ Affricate p͡f b͡v t͡s d͡z t͡ʃ d͡ʒ c͡ç k͡x Fricative β f v s̪ s z ʃː x ʁ h Trill...

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Pahari-Pothwari
Minggu, 2026-08-09 18:41:26

Pahari Labial Dental Alveolar Post-alv./ Palatal Velar Glottal Stop/ Affricate voiceless p t̪ t t͡ʃ k aspirated pʰ t̪ʰ tʰ t͡ʃʰ kʰ voiced b d̪ d d͡ʒ ɡ...

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Telugu language
Selasa, 2026-08-18 01:11:18

Post-alv./ Palatal Velar Glottal plain sibilant Nasal m m n n ɳ ṇ Plosive/ Affricate unaspirated p p t t t͡s ts ʈ ṭ t͡ʃ c k k voiced b b d d d͡z dz ɖ ḍ d͡ʒ...

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Fuzhou dialect
Jumat, 2026-05-08 02:19:27

/pʰ/ (波) /tʰ/ (他) /kʰ/ (氣) plain /p/ (邊) /t/ (低) /k/ (求) /ʔ/ (鶯) Fricative /s/ (時) /h/ (喜) Affricate aspirated /tsʰ/ (出) plain /ts/ (曾) Lateral /l/ (柳)...

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Babatana language
Minggu, 2026-06-14 07:34:28

[ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ] when intervocalically. The fricative /z/ can be heard as an affricate [dz] in free variation within word-initial position. The central vowel...

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Mongolic languages
Rabu, 2026-08-19 21:44:10

instances where UM indicates /p/; e.g. debel > Khalkha deel. The palatal affricates *č, *čʰ were fronted in Northern Modern Mongolian dialects such as Khalkha...

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Gheg Albanian
Minggu, 2026-08-09 09:09:34

"dog") and [ɟ] (as in gjumë, "sleep"), are realised as palato-alveolar affricates, [t͡ʃ] and [d͡ʒ] respectively. Northwestern Gheg, sometimes known as Western...

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Swabian German
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 19:49:19

alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal/ Glottal Plosive p b t d k ɡ Affricate b̥f d̥s (d̥ʃ) Nasal m n ŋ Fricative f v s ʃ (ç) x (ɣ) ʁ (ʕ) h Approximant...

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Chil (Meitei letter)
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:14:45

(Meetei Mayek). It primarily represents the voiceless palato-alveolar affricate consonant ([t͡ʃ]). In accordance with the unique naming system of the...

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Kgalagadi language
Rabu, 2025-11-19 08:10:37

variation. Lateral affricates [t͡ɬ, t͡ɬʰ] may occur from loanwords. Sounds /z, ʒ/ can be pronounced in free variation as affricates [d͡z, d͡ʒ] in the Bolaongwe...

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Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives
Selasa, 2026-08-11 21:09:09

'mountain' Likely to have allophones among native speakers, as it may affricate to [tʃ], [tɕ] and/or [ts] in certain environments. See Portuguese phonology...

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Northeast Caucasian languages
Rabu, 2026-08-19 23:25:13

sʲː zʲ j affricate pal. t͡ɕ t͡ɕː t͡ɕʼ d͡ʑ bifocal fricative ʃ ʃː ʒ bifocal affricate t͡ʃ t͡ʃː t͡ʃʼ d͡ʒ Lateral fricative ɬ ɬː ɮ l l1 affricate t͡ɬ t͡ɬː...

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Dz (digraph)
Jumat, 2026-04-10 21:09:25

Analiza Gramatiko de Esperanto, consider dz to be a digraph for the voiced affricate [d͡z], as in edzo "husband". The case for this is "rather weak". Most...

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Kurukh language
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 05:52:46

Dental/ Alveolar Retroflex Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal m n (ɳ) ɲ ŋ Plosive/ Affricate voiceless plain p t ʈ tʃ k ʔ aspirated pʰ tʰ ʈʰ tʃʰ kʰ voiced plain b...

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Algiers
Selasa, 2026-08-18 18:06:59

city is Dzayer. However, Dzayer raises the question of the origin of the affricate [dz], which neither Arabic nor Berber possesses in its consonantal system...

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Indonesian language
Senin, 2026-08-17 13:18:29

/s/ before voiced consonants. According to some analyses, postalveolar affricates /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ are instead palatals [c] and [ɟ] in Indonesian. The consonants...

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Lombard language
Kamis, 2026-07-23 03:59:29

(Palato-) alveolar Velar Nasal m n ɲ (ŋ) Stop voiceless p t k voiced b d ɡ Affricate voiceless t͡s t͡ʃ voiced d͡z d͡ʒ Fricative voiceless f s ʃ voiced z ʒ...

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