Editing Affricate (section)

==Examples==
The [[English language|English]] sounds spelled "ch" and "j" ([[Phonetic transcription#Narrow versus broad; phonemic versus phonetic|broadly transcribed]] as {{IPA|[t͡ʃ]}} and {{IPA|[d͡ʒ]}} in the [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]]), [[German language|German]] and [[Italian language|Italian]] ''z'' {{IPA|[t͡s]}} and [[Italian language|Italian]] ''z'' {{IPA|[d͡z]}} are typical affricates, and sounds like these are fairly common in the world's languages, as are other affricates with similar sounds, such as those in [[Polish language|Polish]] and [[Chinese language|Chinese]]. However, voiced affricates other than {{IPA|[d͡ʒ]}} are relatively uncommon. For several places of articulation they are not attested at all.

Much less common are [[labiodental consonant|labiodental]] affricates, such as {{IPA|[p͡f]}} in [[German language|German]], [[Kinyarwanda]] and [[Izi language|Izi]], or [[velar consonant|velar]] affricates, such as {{IPA|[k͡x]}} in [[Tswana language|Tswana]] (written ''kg'') or in High Alemannic [[Swiss German]] dialects. Worldwide, relatively few languages have affricates in these positions even though the corresponding [[stop consonant]]s, {{IPA|[p]}} and {{IPA|[k]}}, are common or virtually universal. Also less common are alveolar affricates where the fricative release is [[lateral consonant|lateral]], such as the {{IPA|[t͡ɬ]}} sound found in [[Nahuatl]] and [[Navajo language|Navajo]]. Some other [[Athabaskan languages]], such as [[Dene Suline language|Dene Suline]], have unaspirated, aspirated, and ejective series of affricates whose release may be dental, alveolar, postalveolar, or lateral: {{IPA|[t̪͡θ]}}, {{IPA|[t̪͡θʰ]}}, {{IPA|[t̪͡θʼ]}}, {{IPA|[t͡s]}}, {{IPA|[t͡sʰ]}}, {{IPA|[t͡sʼ]}}, {{IPA|[t͡ʃ]}}, {{IPA|[t͡ʃʰ]}}, {{IPA|[t͡ʃʼ]}}, {{IPA|[t͡ɬ]}}, {{IPA|[t͡ɬʰ]}}, and {{IPA|[t͡ɬʼ]}}.