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In english, as mentioned re. australia below (and also america), the negation of a negative is: 'no, yea' https://pics.me.me/california-english-no-yeah-yes-yea

• lostlogin 7y ago
  ‘Yeah na’ in New Zealand.
• juliangamble 7y ago
  'Yeah nah' - has variations across the English speaking world: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/253960/15280 https://english.stackexchange.com/a/253960/15280
• yesenadam 7y ago
  Hmm, not sure about that. Sydney here. I can't think offhand of a context where 'No, yeah' would have much meaning, if any. I never hear it. Does sound like bush talk, maybe, but not sure. e.g. "You don’t like me, do you?" "No, yeah" (or "yeah, no") would just be a meaningless, confusing response. You'd say "Yes! of course I do" or something. There's that old joke where a lecturer is telling the audience about how two affirmatives never make a negative in English, and a voice is heard "Yeah yeah". I guess you could try "You don't like me, do you?" "No no, I do!". But whatever's said, the meaning would be determined mostly by the tone of voice, facial expression, body language etc
  • marcus_holmes 7y ago
    Perth here. "nah yeah" is common. the "nah" indicates disagreement with the statement, and the "yeah" affirms the positive. Often with a restatement of the statement attached. e.g: "nah, yeah I like you mate"