Affricate Consonants

Affricate consonants are pronounced by blocking the air with the place of articulation in the mouth and the soft palate in the nose, pushing the diaphragm to create an air pressure, and then releasing the air and creating a friction sound. They actually start like plosives and end like fricatives with the same place of articulation, but the pop sound in affricates is weaker than in plosives and the friction sound is shorter than in fricatives and starts just when releasing the air, and they have a duration of a single sound.

Affricates in Orish
Because affricates start like plosives and end like fricatives, unlike most sounds in Orish, affricates are spelled in combinations of letters, where the first letter is a plosive letter and the second letter is a fricative letter, with the same (or a close) place of articulation and phonation. Here are more good reasons affricates are spelled in such combinations of letters in Orish:
 * PF - represents the unvoiced labiodental affricate.
 * BV - represents the voiced labiodental affricate.
 * TS - represents the unvoiced alveolar affricate.
 * DZ - represents the voiced alveolar affricate.
 * TƩ - represents the unvoiced postalveolar affricate.
 * DƷ - represents the voiced postalveolar affricate.
 * In many languages there are no affricates at all, and when they are spelled in such combinations of letters, it can make it clearer how they should be pronounced, especially in PF and BV that exist in very few languages in the world
 * To reduce the number of characters in Orish, so that there is a place for all characters in the keyboard.
 * It's difficult to find good characters for affricate consonants.