My brother-in-law is from Bogota, Colombia, and he pronounces most "y"s and
"ll"s as a hard "j".
Brent
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From: Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com>
To: "Friam@redfish. com" <friam@redfish.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Spelling of Spanish Surnames
Well, since we've gone this far...
I have yet to land on a singular pronunciation of "yo.". It can vary from the
hard Y as in "Joe" to "yo" like yo-yo.
My preliminary observation: the farther south one goes in LatAm, the
harder/stronger the "y", as in "Joe". But better data is clearly needed. I
wonder if linguists have done any mapping of Spanish as has been done for
American usages?
-TJ
On Feb 23, 2014 6:50 PM, "Steve Smith" <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote:
On 2/23/14 6:36 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
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>Xavier and Xalapa come to mind. Both those “x”s are pronounced like “h”.
and Me"h"ico!
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