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Listen to /ʝ/
Listen to /ʎ/
What I find interesting about this is that this transition also happened in highly unrelated languages such as Hungarian, Greek and Swedish, not only in related Portuguese and French.
I guess people find it hard to pronounce /ʎ/ but are too inert to change the spelling.
My real question would be: if it’s hard to pronounce, why did it appear long ago in so many different languages?
Portuguese still keeps it, with /lh/ like trabalho which is different from /j/ like janeiro.