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 | | Affricates may also be contrasted by palatalization, as in the Erzya language, where voiceless alveolar, postalveolar and palatal affricates are contrasted. |
 | | Many Athabaskan languages (such as Chipewyan and Navajo) have series of coronal affricates which may be unaspirated, aspirated, or ejective in addition to being interdental/dental, alveolar, postalveolar, or lateral, i.e. |
 | | Affricate consonants begin like stops (most often an alveovelar, such as [t] or [d]), but they do not have releases of their own, instead opening directly into fricatives such as [s] or [z] (or, in one language, into trills). |
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