Affricate Consonant

Affricate Consonant

Affricates are consonants that begin as stops (most often an alveolar, such as or ) but release as a fricative (such as or or occasionally into a fricative trill) rather than directly into the following vowel. English has two affricates, spelled ch and j.

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