1. relating to or being an affricative sound
Usage: linguistics

1. a speech sound that begins as a stop consonant and releases as a fricative
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The ‘ch’ sound in ‘chair’ is an affricative.
• English has two common affricatives: ‘ch’ and ‘j’.
• The affricative consonant combines features of stops and fricatives.
• Students learned to identify affricative sounds in phonetics class.
• The word ‘judge’ begins and ends with affricative consonants.
• Affricative pronunciation can be challenging for language learners.