Mewc Tever wabbe:
> > > I still wonder how young Spanish people (of my age: 25 or so)
pronounce
> > >ll...
> >
> > /j/ or /Z/ for me, usually (not Spain Spanish though).
>
> My mistake, not /Z/ (that's the English approximation) ... more like
> [j\] --voiced palatal fricative. (Right after I posted this my
brain went
> "what _were_ you thinking?")
Well, in Paisa dialect of Spanish (Medellín and souronding areas) they
use /Z/ for <ll> and either /j/ or /j\/ for <y>. Here in Bogotá the
sound is /j\/ for both, but some (old) people actually use /L/ for
<ll>.
-- Carlos Th