Template:Affricates

The affricates are consonants that start as a plosive but has a release as a fricative. The most typical kind of affricates are the sibilant ones, being the only kind of affricates found in the Phonetic Systems available for Vocaloid. However this doesn't mean another kind of affricates, like the labial and velar affricates.

Usually the affricates are considered ambiguos consonant sequeces as its hard to classify them either as a stop + fricative cluster or as a true affricates. Usually each languages classify them accord their own grammatical rules, however this ambiguous nature can be taken as advantage to some interesting tricks, as will be discussed further ahead.