Re: CONLANG Digest - 16 Oct 2000

Carlos Thompson wrote:
> Here in Bogotá the sound is /j\/ for both
I notice that /j\/ tends to be interpreted as /dZ/ by English-speakers.
In fact, I once thought that Colombian Spanish used /dZ/ for <ll> and
<y> having heard what sounded to me like /dZo/ and /dZamo/ from a
Colombian girl I knew.  It wasn't until later, when I learned about
phonetics, that I realized she must've been saying /j\o/ and /j\amo/.

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