Postby Carlos_Halliwell » 2016-01-16, 1:28
The Spanish "j" (and the g before e and i) is pronounced in 3 different ways:
-Voiceless uvular fricative [ꭓ] - Spain (except for Andalusia, in the south), some regions in Peru.
-Voiceless velar fricative [x] - Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru. Same as the ch in Scottish word "loch" or in German "Bach".
-Voiceless glottal fricative [h] - Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Andalusia (Spain) and Spanish-speakers living in the U.S. (I have heard Mexican-Americans pronounce it as an h). This is the way the "j "was pronounced in the Philippines too. I think Bolivian Spanish also has this phoneme, though I'm not sure.
I am missing some countries, as well as more specific dialects. I don't know about Central American dialects either.