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Det iz vaj ju invent nju leters, lajk č for sendvič, or š for ader šit.
by dsego 13y ago
Det iz vaj ju invent nju leters, lajk č for sendvič, or š for ader šit.
- Ygg2 13y agoWeird, I've never seen people use j for that sound. They go for y (like y in yast or yet).
- viraptor 13y agoSlavic languages use it that way. For example polish "jest" starts with the same sound as yeast.
- nzp 13y agoNot only that, but in Serbo-Croatian, in latin script, "nj" is a digraph for the ɲ phoneme. (A very small number of words, mostly of Latin origin, can cause ambivalence because they have "n" and "j" juxtaposed but are meant to properly be pronounced separately, e.g. "konjugacija" /con-yu-gatsiya/ (conjugation)). In fact, correct transcription of "new" would really be "nju" (but only in Serbian, there is no transcription of foreign words in Croatian), so you have "Njujork" for "New York".
- drv 13y agoGerman uses it that way too (ja, Jürgen, etc.).
- mcv 13y agoWhat languages have you looked at? It's very common in northern Europe.