affricate

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C-cedille is also used in Albanian, Kurdish and Turkish (plus related languages) to represent the voiceless postalveolar affricate ch - as in 'church'.

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  1. noun A complex speech sound consisting of a stop consonant followed by a fricative; for example, the initial sounds of child and joy. Also called affricative.

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  • C-cedille is also used in Albanian, Kurdish and Turkish (plus related languages) to represent the voiceless postalveolar affricate ch - as in 'church'. —  WordPress.com Top Blogs
  • PHONOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES - REGULAR PLURAL • If the noun ends with a fricative or affricate consonant - / / /, / /, / /, / /, / /, / /, pronounce the plural suffixes \ "s\" or \ "- es\" as —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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  1. Latin affricātus, past participle of affricāre, to rub against : ad-, ad- + fricāre, to rub.

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  1. = German affrikata, < New Latin *affricate., < L. ad, to, + fricare, rub: see fricative.
  2. affricate, adjective
 

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/ˈæfrɪkeɪt/
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