== Merger proposal == 
 I propose that Affrication be merged into Affricate consonant. I admit that I have little subject matter expertise, but to this layman, the "Affrication" article contains a simple stub of material that is already covered by "Affricate consonant". This merger, as proposed today, had previously been carried out nearly ten years ago. That status quo remained stable until . An argument presented to justify the reversion was that the "Affricate consonant" article "doesn't even mention the term 'affrication'."  I submit that perhaps this is an indicator of that term's relative encyclopedic significance.  I think a simple section (paragraph) in the merger destination would suffice to cover this content, together with those recently-added references from the stub.  

 I recognize that "affrication" is a noun referring to a process – that being the conversion of a simple stop consonant into an affricate consonant – but I don't see that this stub article would ever grow into a distinct and meaningful encyclopedic article that is able to stand on its own. At present, it is little more than a dictionary entry, and per policy, "Wikipedia is not a dictionary." 

 Finally, for reasons that I raised in another discussion on this page, there is also a page entitled , which is a redirect – from an incorrect name – that should also be included in this merge proposal. —''''''