Which makes me wonder if it is maybe a lateral affricate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus] Reference

But isn't Chinook pronounced with an affricate "ch" either?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making Light: The Colorful Holiday Customs Of Our European Friends] Reference

Consider the French name Durand when pronounced in English as 'djuarInd dj is the affricate in John.    From Wordnik.com.  [Urdu in English | Linguism] Reference

H is always silent, except in the spelling -CH- which represents, as in English, a palato-alveolar affricate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spanish spelling | Linguism] Reference

Wouldn't a lateral affricate or just lateral fricative they sound the same to my inexperience ear make more sense?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus] Reference

Depending on the variety of Spanish, this can be a lateral, an approximant, a fricative or an affricate or even a plosive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spanish spelling | Linguism] Reference

In one name, where the orthography has initial G, the ‘mistake’ is to use a velar plosive instead of the affricate: Genghis Khan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fricative or Affricate? | Linguism] Reference

Nevertheless, BBC reporters – even those stationed in West Africa – frequently pronounce this with a fricative rather than an affricate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fricative or Affricate? | Linguism] Reference

How can ‘dsh’ be simpler than e.g. ‘j’ for the voiced palato-alveolar affricate, or ‘tsh’ simpler than ‘ch’ for the voiceless one?.    From Wordnik.com.  [English spelling reform | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference

Incidentally, despite being a capital letter Ł is not a cover symbol in the transcription by Starostin & Nikolayev, it's the voiced lateral affricate.    From Wordnik.com.  [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference

Only in English, among the languages best known in English-speaking countries, does ‘j’ and sometimes ‘g’ represent a palato-alveolar affricate dʒ.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fricative or Affricate? | Linguism] Reference

If there are no voicing contrasts in Minoan stops, then it seems to me that the likeliest value for d is something more like an unaspirated affricate: /tʃ/.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference

The forms with theta are simply not from Greek and Etruscan's affricate -z- in place of Greek -ss- clearly preserves a form predating that of Classical Greek.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus] Reference

Read also Paleoglot: A new value for Minoan 'd' where I explain why Minoan had no voiced plosives and that 'd' is instead an affricate or fricative based on phonological grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus] Reference

Apparently it means: sibilant is a type of fricative or affricate consonant, made by directing a jet of air through a narrow channel in the vocal tract towards the sharp edge of the teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men (with Pens) and a Lady] Reference

Similarly loans such as "chamber", "champion", "chalice" don't have an initial affricate because of "mishearing" the French, but because of representing a loan before deaffrication or from a conservativ variety, or vice versa as in the last case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward Sapir and the Philistine headdress] Reference

The BBC recommendation, which corresponds to that given in most if not all manuals of pronunciation for Serbian, is to treat the ‘dž’, written with the single letter ‘џ’ in Cyrillic, as the straightforward English voiced palato-alveolar affricate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radovan Karadžić | Linguism] Reference

ƛ̣ is simply the ejective lateral affricate, a fairly common sound in some modern EC languages, not to mention Na-Dené languages and suchlike.    From Wordnik.com.  [How NOT to reconstruct a protolanguage] Reference

C-cedille is also used in Albanian, Kurdish and Turkish (plus related languages) to represent the voiceless postalveolar affricate ch - as in 'church'.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com Top Blogs] Reference

Aphrodisiacs thatwork primrose exhausted pontific.affricate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Rights and corporations:] Reference

(alveodental affricate) where other Turkic languages have/j/(glide).    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Big Oil Will Be a Big Test for Kazakhstan] Reference

To these, I can add an even stranger one: Abidjan, the capital of Côte d’Ivoire, in which the letter combination ‘dj’ makes it quite clear that the affricate is intended.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fricative or Affricate? | Linguism] Reference

We are obviously afraid of the affricate – perhaps we know that it is rare in European languages, and assume that therefore it can’t ever be the right sound in a foreign word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fricative or Affricate? | Linguism] Reference

Regional pronunciation doesn’t affect the phonological distinction between the two words ‘leisure’ and ‘ledger’: the first always has a voiced palato-alveolar fricative as its medial consonant, and the second always has a voiced affricate.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on BBC Pronunciation | Linguism] Reference

They also had to make up ways to spell less-logical sounds, like ‘zh’, which unlike ‘tsh’ can’t be analyzed into two separate sounds linguists call the ‘tsh’ sound an ‘affricate’ - it starts off with a ‘t’ stop and then releases air into a ’sh’, so they decided to use the two closest letters they could find, together: Zayin and Shin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Britney Lo Midaberet Ivrit | Jewschool] Reference

What we see is an alveo-palatal affricate before /i/ and an alveolar affricate before /u/.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f'] Reference

I've previously suggested an affricate /t͡ʃ/ for Minoan "d" but I'm lately honestly considering an affricate /t͡θ/, attested in Athabaskan languages, which when unaspirated may be mistaken as either a "d" or an "l", particularly in a language like Mycenaean Greek which evidently lacked this sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pre-Greek name for Odysseus] Reference