adjective
- pronounced as an affricate; characterized by the articulation of a stop followed immediately by a fricative at the same place of articulation
Usage: linguistics, phonetics
Examples
- The 'ch' sound in 'church' is an affricated consonant.
- In English, the 'j' sound in 'judge' is affricated.
- Linguists describe the initial sound of 'church' as affricated because it combines a stop and a fricative.
- The affricated sounds in English include /tʃ/ and /dʒ/.
- Some languages have more affricated consonants than English does.