Re: The letter j\

Raymond Brown wrote:
> Yep, [j\] is the voiced equivalent of German ich-laut.  IME the Spanish /j/
> is often pronounced this way, at least by Spanish speakers from Spain (I
> don't know about Latin American varieties).  I'd be suprised if any
> language had /j\/ and /j/ as separate phonemes.
Uatakassi uses [j\:] as the phonetic realization of the geminated
version of /j/, just as [B:] is used as the geminate version of /w/.

And at least some LA dialects do use [j\] or sometimes [Z] for /j/

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