An aspirated affricate consists of a stop, fricative, and aspirated release. Before plosive or affricate consonants this nasality becomes homorganic nasal of the following consonant. It commonly represents the voiceless postalveolar affricate , like in "switch". The palato-alveolar affricate and uvular stop are pronounced with strong aspiration. It is the sibilant equivalent of voiced palatal affricate. Secondly, the lateral affricate and fricative (, and ) appear with both values. The voiceless alveolar lateral affricate is assimilated after and pronounced . It usually occurs with its voiceless counterpart, the voiceless palatal affricate. Abkhaz uses it to represent the voiced retroflex affricate . Similarly, there are two letters ( and ) for the voiced postalveolar affricate . The palatal affricate and sibilant may have been palato-alveolar. It usually occurs with its voiced counterpart, the voiced palatal affricate. This sound is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate. In Russian, Che usually represents the voiceless alveolo-palatal affricate . This sound is the non-sibilant equivalent of the voiced alveolo-palatal affricate.