Female entering continent starts to try every consonantal sound (9)

'consonantal sound' is the definition.
'affricate' can be an answer for 'sound' (affricate is a kind of sound). I am unsure of the 'consonantal' bit.

'female entering continent starts to try every' is the wordplay.
'female' becomes 'f' (abbreviation).
'entering' is an insertion indicator.
'continent' becomes 'africa' (Africa is an example).
'starts to' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letters of 'try every' is 'te'.
'f' put within 'africa' is 'affrica'.
'affrica'+'te'='AFFRICATE'

Can you help me to learn more?