affricate consonant

Thai distinguishes among three voice/aspiration patterns for plosive and affricate consonants:

Before plosive or affricate consonants this nasality becomes homorganic nasal of the following consonant.

It has an almost complete series of ejective consonants accompanying its stop, fricative, and affricate consonants.

Independently of gradation, stop and affricate consonants were also split in three main allophones with respect to phonation:

The plosive, fricative, and affricate consonants are divided into two sets, referred to as fortis and lenis.

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It has ejective consonants, click consonants, a uvular trill, a relatively large number of affricate consonants, no prenasalised consonants, and a rare form of vowel-height (alternatively, advanced tongue root) harmony.

Sibilance is a manner of articulation of fricative and affricate consonants, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the sharp edge of the teeth, which are held close together; a consonant that uses sibilance may be called a sibilant.

In Rio Grande do Sul, as in most of Brazil, the letters "t" and "d" are pronounced as palato-alveolar affricate consonants, when immediately succeeded by the vowel "i" (a process very similar to Russian palatalization and which, however, does not happen in the varieties of the Pampas).