Re: the lonely affricate

Joshua Shinavier wrote:

> A question: does anyone know of any language which has a "j" sound --
> [dZ] -- but no "ch" -- [tS]?  One of the peculiarities (there aren't
> many) of Arov=EBn's phonetics is that it has just one affricate,
> although it's otherwise pretty well rounded-out as far as consonants go=
:

Spanish <ch> is [tS]... or mayby something like [tC], while there is no
[dZ]... well, I once read that in some dialects <y> is [dZ], while in oth=
ers
is [j\] (fricative [j]) or [j], not to mention Rioplatense where <y> beco=
mes
[Z] or [S].

Anyhow Spanish has only one affricate: <ch> [tS] except for some dialects=
 or
idiolects.

-- Carlos Th