ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Affricates and argues that a good grounding in phonetics and tone work is an indispensable preliminary to anyone embarking on a study of African language and so provides the material necessary for this in a simple form. The volume is primarily a practical manual for students of African languages but will also be an invaluable tool for students of general linguistics as a work of scientific interest. The languages observed present features of language that are very different to those found in Europe. Also affricate consonants are sounds which resemble plosives in that they consist of a stop, but differ from plosives in that the stop is released slowly instead of suddenly. An affricate can be made wherever a stop is made. The commonest ones which occur as speech sounds of a language are Bi-labial or labio-dental, Dental or alveolar, Post-alveolar and Velar.
