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US
/ˈæfɹəkət/
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NOUN
- a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')
How To Use affricate In A Sentence
- For example, the aspirated series of stops and affricates are written by adding a horizontal stroke to the letters for the plain series.
- For example, the aspirated series of stops and affricates are written by adding a horizontal stroke to the letters for the plain series.
- As for the presence of affricates, the rare eteocretan texts indeed suggest their presence as well. A new value for Minoan 'd'
- Similarly loans such as "chamber", "champion", "chalice" don't have an initial affricate because of "mishearing" the French, but because of representing a loan before deaffrication or from a conservativ variety, or vice versa as in the last case. Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress
- However, palatal velar stops are unstable and quickly turn to affricates, so it wouldn't have been long before *ć and *k were heard throughout Satem IE as became the norm in later Indo-Iranian. Archive 2007-10-01
- His spelling of tree and leg shows that the Proto-Athabaskan velars had not yet become palatal affricates, as they soon thereafter did.
- Then you'll be hard-pressed to explain the source of Japanese affricates, ts and z then. Linear A treatment of consonant clusters
- His spelling of tree and leg shows that the Proto-Athabaskan velars had not yet become palatal affricates, as they soon thereafter did.
- I say “modern” because both “Peking” and “Nanking” reflect an earlier state of Mandarin in which velar stops before front vowels had not yet merged with affricates; this sound change happened around the 16th century. Beijing vs Peking | Linguism
- Continuant consonants are fricatives and liquids; i.e., just about everything except nasals, stops and affricates.