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Affricate consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Affricate consonants begin like stops (most often an alveolar, such as [t] or [d]), but release as a fricative such as [s] or [z] (or, a couple languages, into a fricative trill) rather than directly into the following vowel. |
 | | Worldwide, only a few languages have affricates in these positions, even though the corresponding stop consonants are virtually universal. |
 | | Several Khoisan languages such as !Xóõ are reported to have voiced ejective affricates, but these are actually consonant clusters: [dts’, dtʃ’]. |
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