Affricate
Affricate 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').
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Synonyms for Affricate
Fricative
Fricative noun - A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract.
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Synonyms for Fricative
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- consonant and affricate
- consonant and fricative
- liquid and affricate
- liquid and fricative
- click and affricate
- click and fricative
- phone and affricate
- phone and fricative
- sibilant and affricate
- sibilant and fricative
- spirant and affricate
- spirant and fricative
- plosive and affricate
- plosive and fricative
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Yemenite voiceless uvular stop /q/ and Egyptian voiced palato-alveolar affricate /d͡ʒ/, but this is hardly ever noticed, and its usually substituted with a voiced velar fricative /ɣ/ instead of /k/ in dialects that dont have /g/, i.e.
Source: Arab Beoble Talk
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