Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "How Iceland's Richest Man Lost EVERYTHING" video.

  1. "and the Y makes the J sound" This part doesn't help anybody. In English, 'J' is usually pronounced as a voiced postalveolar affricate (like e.g. in the word "jump") but I'm pretty sure that's not what you meant. Which language's "J sound" are you talking about here?
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  2.  @samsonsoturian6013  Well, then it's certainly incorrect. The "English J sound" is [d͡ʒ] and that's a sound Icelandic doesn't have (if the Wikipedia page on Icelandic phonology is to be believed). According to Wikipedia Reykjavík is pronounced as [ˈreiːcaˌviːk] in Icelandic so at least here 'Y' seems to be pronounced as [iː], not [d͡ʒ].
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  3.  @samsonsoturian6013  But even you wrote the first part of your phonetic respelling as "Raik", so no English J sound.
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  4.  @samsonsoturian6013  You're right, it's not my first language but I still do know that in English 'J' is most often pronounced as [d͡ʒ]. Surely you're not disputing that?
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  5.  @samsonsoturian6013  I hear English speakers pronouncing 'J' as a voiced postalveolar affricate all the time.
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  6. No.
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