Places and manners of articulation

Affricates

The two palato-alveolar affricates of English are by far the most common ones in the languages of the world. Besides these, alveolars are also relatively frequent. The voiceless member, [t^s], of this group, which is the most common one, is found in Chinese, Croatian, Japanese, Slovene, and Czech, while the voiced [d^z] may be found in Bulgarian. Also worth mentioning is the voiceless bilabial affricate, [p^f], which is found in German.