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Unsurprisingly, it's similar in Scottish Gaelic and Welsh. Mandarin and Cantonese (and probably other Sinitic languages) don't either, with much the same arra
by DonaldFisk 6y ago
Unsurprisingly, it's similar in Scottish Gaelic and Welsh. Mandarin and Cantonese (and probably other Sinitic languages) don't either, with much the same arrangement as the Celtic languages.
- AnotherGoodName 6y agoNo Shi? I had no idea about Mandarin.
- lopmotr 6y agoShi means "is", not "yes" in Mandarin.
- singularity2001 6y agowho sais yes isn't a contraction of i'is
- r0rshrk 6y agoSurprisingly, this is partially true. It's a contraction but an older one. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/yes https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/yes
- chrischen 6y agoThere are many yes-like words, but not exactly "yes". There's "it is", "it's correct", and "it's good" that may be used depending on context to mean yes.
- unfunco 6y agoIn Welsh there's (Nag-)Ydw and (Nag-)Oes, and Dim.
- v-yadli 6y agoEnter 嗯(polyphonic)： ng1: indeed, so what? ng2: huh? ng3: what? ng4: yeah, yes. ng~: nooo.