Asking as a non native speaker, what is it about different pronunciations of j as in San Jose and hallelujah and joy?

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Asking as a non native speaker, what is it about different pronunciations of j as in San Jose and hallelujah and joy?

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San Jose is from Spanish, where the J makes an H sound or Y sound sometimes.

Hallelujah comes from Hebrew, IIRC.

Joy is the only completely English word not appropriated from another language.

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