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I pronounce it /jE/, with the ''e'' sound in ''yet''.

I say [jɛ̤]

I pronounce it like spaceflight.

shouldn't this be in the English forum ?

Awesome dialect Daniel. What dialect is it you're speaking?

SpaceFlight wrote:I pronounce it /jE/, with the ''e'' sound in ''yet''.

I pronounce it [jA] or something similar to [ja].
In North Dakota, most people (that I know anyway) write it as "ya". That's the way I've always written it, and only recently learned the spelling "yeah".

I pronounce with the same vowel as in 'bat' although sometimes it comes out more like 'ja'. I've never heard it as 'je' before. That's a new one for me.

I knew a girl from New Jersey and she would pronounce it like 'je'. Here people use the same 'a' as in 'bat', but it's stronger. It almost sounds like 'ijaaaa'. Think of a donkey.

Now, I'm no native English speaker, but I pronunced sorta like [jEa:], which is the same was as the Faroese word for yes: ja [jEa:]

I pronounce it [j{] or [ja].

Most times I say [ja].

Strigo wrote:I pronounce it like spaceflight.

What the ...?

Rom wrote:I've never heard it as 'je' before.

Neither have I. [je] as in [jet] without a "t"?

Here is my pronunciation:

http://media.putfile.com/yeah9957

Daniel wrote:

yabba wrote:

Strigo wrote:I pronounce it like spaceflight.

What the ...?

Daniel: Hey, Carlos! Would you like some ice cream?
Strigo: Spaceflight!!!

Can't breath!
I pronounce it like jæ.

amoeba wrote:Here is my pronunciation:

http://media.putfile.com/yeah9957

the same with me

I pronounce it /jæ/

Speaking of which, what about "jah" with (sucking in air) aspiration? We use this sound a lot in my family. It comes from Norwegian.

How did you record that file, amoeba? Thanks.

Gormur wrote:How did you record that file, amoeba? Thanks.

I used a microphone and the 'Sound Recorder' program on Windows. Then I uploaded the file to http://www.putfile.com/ (it's free).

Gormur wrote:Speaking of which, what about "jah" with (sucking in air) aspiration? We use this sound a lot in my family. It comes from Norwegian.

In addition to having "yeah" in my dialect, pronounced /jæ/ -> [jæ] approaching /jɛ/, I also have a word in my dialect which might be written as "yah" in English orthography, which is pronounced like German "ja", pronounced /ja/ -> [ja] (not [jɑ], even though [ɑ] is used in most cases for /ɑ/ in my dialect and there are probably only one or two instances of a separate /a/ in my dialect, of which this is one). Note though that "yah" is not exactly synonymous with "yeah" in it, as it is often used as a strong affirmative rather than as a weak affirmative, when stressed, whereas "yeah" in my dialect is almost always a weak affirmative.