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It's adapted into my language as junta with hard /j/ so yes, it's a thing
by mcmoor 3y ago
It's adapted into my language as junta with hard /j/ so yes, it's a thing
- mahkeiro 3y agoDon‘t worry the French are not better as the word is junte in French with a [ʒ] sound
- kergonath 3y agoThere is no equivalent to the Spanish /j/ in French. Besides, the -e ending instead of the Spanish -a should tell you that it has been adapted and is used as a loanword, a French word of Spanish origin, not a Spanish word. Spanish itself is full of loanwords, particularly from Arabic, which are not pronounced like in Arabic either (which Arabic, anyway?) There is no better or worse, there are just words that travel across languages.
- mahkeiro 3y agoIt was a joke! And in French we tend to either keep or not the original pronunciation. A funny one is mojito where the j is always replace by a French r.