Re: Affricatives

Elyse Grasso wrote:

> Are there back affricatives? The ones I can think of are English CH and
> J, and Japanese tsu and the voiced equivalent, and Pf. (Is there a
> voiced labial affricative found anywhere?)
Well, if you wanna have more affricates, just look at
the IPA chart (http://www.i-foo.com/~kturtle/misc/xsamchart.gif)
and combine all the plosives with their homorganic (same place
of articulation) fricatives.

Admittedly, some of them would be a bit hard to pronounce,
but that's no excuse for not trying! :)

A pharyngeal affricate, that'd be something. There's not even an
IPA sign for the pharyngeal plosive. It's not judged impossible
though. And a glottal one! /?h/. Does anyone know of languages with such
monstrosities? Actually, the glottal affricate is pretty
easy to pronounce. The pharyngeal and uvular are a bit tougher
though. And I *really* don't want to try the voiced variants here
at work. :D

Daniel Andreasson