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by pdpi 1832 days ago
I'm not super familiar with that particular bit of language history, but AIUI nasal vowels/diphthongs are just weird. The way we both pronounce and spell them seems to have evolved a fair bit. Joam and JoaƵ are both obsolete spellings of the name, so I can only imagine that the spelling was closer to Spanish before and we've diverged more than they have.