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Really? That's weird. It's the same /j/ sound as in portuguese pai[1] (/paj/) and it's unequivocally a vowel there. [1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dicti
by lhorie 9y ago
Really? That's weird. It's the same /j/ sound as in portuguese pai[1] (/paj/) and it's unequivocally a vowel there.
[1] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/portuguese-english/pai https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/portuguese-engl...
- gizmo686 9y agoIs it? I just did a brief search, and found this paper [0], which includes a phonological inventory of Brazillian Portuguese. It lists /j/ as a consonant. [0] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00238309020450020401 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0023830902045002...