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J is one of those letters that gets treated wildly different depending on the language. Compare Germanic and Slavic languages where j = /y/, French and Portugue
by dhosek 2y ago
J is one of those letters that gets treated wildly different depending on the language. Compare Germanic and Slavic languages where j = /y/, French and Portuguese where j = /zh/, Spanish where j = /h/ (but with a bit more edge than English /h/, kind of halfway between /h/ and /kh/).
- asveikau 2y agoThe International Phonetic Alphabet is helpful, though it may add confusion to talk about this with people unfamiliar with IPA. What you describe as y is /j/ in IPA. What you describe as zh is /ʒ/. Spanish j is usually /x/. Some languages transcribe /x/ as kh or ch. There are accents of Spanish that pronounce it as /h/ or something slightly different however.