Small world!

... *Garlic* I'm very sorry.

Yup, I'm irish and we do. I have never really paid attention to it until I found this video. Pretty cool connection

Yup probably because of the vikings ;)

People in minnesota and upper peninsula michigan sometimes inhale and nod while saying yes. I think its a northern germanic/scando inherited rhing

Is this like when saying já in Icelandic and inhaling instead of exhaling? I heard that it’s a technique that is used when speaking, which is, breathing in while still speaking, so that one doesn’t have to pause to breathe in normally during the conversation... I started doing that as well, since I started learning Norse and Gothic and Icelandic, so I can say many things without having to take a break to breathe in normally, and sometimes I also do this inhale while singing along with the Skáld songs Gleipnir and Tróll Kalla Mik!

It means yes, but is also added at the end of some sentences.

I've lived in Harstad (68° North) for 16 years and I'm now in Bergen (60° North). It's a typical sound heard everywhere in Norway and, believe me, once you've noticed it, it's all you hear all the time! As for hearing it in Québec as well, you highly surprise me.... J'viens de Montréal pis j'ai jamais entendu ce son-là de ma vie dans le parler quotidien. J'viens pas d'Outremont mais d'un quartier ouvrier. Bon, j'aurais peut-être plus de chance dans un CHSLD mais pourquoi j'ai jamais entendu ça à la télé ou à la radio?! En tous cas, si certains Québécois plus âgés le font, c'est certainement pas de façon aussi évidente qu'ici, j'vous l'jure! Hehehe... :-D

We have it in France too. A sharply inhaled "ouais", oftentimes more than one at a time like "hwè hwè, hwè" to show you fully understand what someone told you

@@Celboutte je viens de recevoir un « j’aime » sur mon commentaire d’il y a six ans 😂 et de trouver le vôtre d’il y a quatre ans 😆 En effet c’est pas à Montréal que j’ai entendu ça mais plus « en région », surtout dans Les Laurentides. Et bon, j’ai 50 ans donc si je me souviens d’avoir entendu des personnes de 80 ans (disons) alors que j’en avais 20 (mettons) on parle de gens nés au début du 20e siècle… en tous cas 😂 je suis peut-être juste tombé sur des gens qui font wepwep plus souvent que la moyenne 😂 Salutations de Montréal, février 2024 ;)

@@solarprogeny6736 très intéressant! Ça date peut-être d’avant la colonisation de la Nouvelle-France? 😂 J’imagine un vieillard breton en 1533 qui dit whepwhepwhep à longueur de journée…

This is very common is Sweden as well

@@Taggez1 This is very common in Finland as well

interesting, i was wondering if repeating these ingressive sounds make the person feel tired .usually i just do ingressive sounds while i am crying.

We do it in Ireland also!

It may be common in Northern Germany as well. I just found out about this type of sound tonight and now I'm thinking about how common it is here. It sounds so familiar to my ears still I can't imagine it being used here. Gotta listen to more people the following days to find out

interesting!

And Ireland, possibly how it got to Canada!

I heard my mother making this sound, sometimes. We are french, and I never heard of this particularity in Norway before... So now I am wondering if my mother was hiding a secret Norwegian identity o__o

Perhaps part of universal grammar, since "yes" is said like this in so many languages.

A terse expression typical for the region. It is used to express acceptance and agreement while indicating that no further discussion is expected or necessary. It's an essential element in our way of speaking, probably reflecting our mentality. In this case It seems to follow the old Ostrobothnian/Wetrobothnian/Nordland dialect continuum. All the way from the north east coast of Finland into Norway. It seems to be a similar phenomenon wherever this sound is found. My guess is that it's an ancient way to express this particular state of mind. A type of sound that seems to get lost in more verbose cultures.

The sound originated from Viking men rowing longboat oars and speaking to eachother

"older" women also do it in German, I have no idea why this sound only stuck with that generation but it's interesting. I also never really thought about it becaue it sounds exactly like "ja" ("yes") and I just assumed people do this because they wanted to say "ja" as quickly as possible even when they were in the process of inhaling...