Re: OT: babel and english

John Cowan wrote:

> Roger Mills wrote:
>
> > Incidentally, there is a large group of closely related ("Toraja")
> > languages in central Sulawesi (Indonesia)-- they distinguish them
> > according to the word for "no".
>
> Dante, of course, sorted the Romance languages according to their
> word for "yes":  si, oc, o-il > oui.  He also noted "sipa" as the
> yes-word in Bolognese.
How many Romance languages use more than one of these?
I know that Standard French uses both "oui" and "si", the latter
IIRC equivalent to German "doch".   Is the Bolognese "sipa"
used alongside another?

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