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Definition of Affricatives
1. affricative [n] - See also: affricative
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affricatives
Literary usage of Affricatives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Descriptions of a New Genus and Eight New Species and Subspecies of African by Ned Hollister (1917)
"affricatives, that is, consonantal diphthongs consisting of stop followed by
spirant of identical ... The same manner of writing applies to affricatives the ..."
2. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1917)
"... marked aspiration; affricatives are rare and consonantal combinations simple.
Glottal stops are frequent but not abrupt. The sounds are clear-cut and ..."
3. A Structural and Lexical Comparison of the Tunica, Chitimacha, and Atakapa by John Reed Swanton (1919)
"It is also interesting to observe that in the employment of s and the affricatives
Chitimacha occupies an intermediate position with reference to the others ..."
4. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"Gaps that may have some significance are: the failure of occurrence of the
affricatives с т, ij after a and a', with the lone exception of a'C 'crawling ..."
5. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"Gaps that may have some significance are: the failure of occurrence of the
affricatives c 2, ö j after a and a', with the lone exception of a'o 'crawling ..."
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