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Languages without yes and no are called echo languages. English used to be four-form with yes/no and yeah/nay, but now it's two-form.

For anyone who doesn't want to watch the whole video, yeah/nay is for answering 'negative' questions (e.g. "do you not like it?")

In the video he says that "yes/no" are for negative questions and "yea/nay" are for positive questions.

This is why people who are interested should just watch the video. It's only about 4 minutes of actual content.

yeah should be yea, traditionally pronounced "yay"

Yea autocorrect