Ingressive Sounds (Sharp Inhale) in Northern Norway

Описание: In Northern Norway the natives make a very unique sound / tone sometimes when they are saying yes or agreeing with you. Instead of saying 'Ja' (yes) sometimes they say 'Ja' with inhaled breath sounding like a 'h' or 'ha' or 'hai'. In other words, these ingressive sounds are used for an affirmative inhaled yes.

An ingressive sound is a sound that is made by inhaling air (air going in). This is the opposite of egressive sounds which are sounds made by pushing air out of the lungs (air going out).

In this video, I recorded Grete, who was showing us around Harstad, Norway, making the unique northern Norway ingressive sound 7 times. See if you can hear all of them.

My Eilertsen relatives we visited also made this sound, but I didn't get it on video.

Here is some more info on ingressive sounds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingressi...

I started wondering how to correctly type out or write down this fascinating new sound. In the "Extensions to the International Phonetic Alphabet", ingressive sounds are indicated with ⟨↓⟩ so the Norwegian backchanneling particles ja and nei would be transcribed ⟨jɑː↓⟩ and ⟨næɪ↓⟩.

A lot of people have contacted me about this video. Apparently there are a lot more technical terms for this phenomenon such as: ingressive phonation, ingressive speech, ingressive pulmonic speech, pulmonic ingressive, inhaled affirmative yeah, inhaled affirmative yes, inhaled positive yeah, affirmative h, affirmative hai, hiberno-english speech, inhaled yes, inhaled yeah. I've also learned that these ingressive sounds are also common in other Nordic / Scandinavian countries such as Sweden (Swedish), Denmark (Danish), Finland (Finnish), Iceland (Icelandic). I've also been told they have also heard these sounds in Australia (Australian), Canada (Canadian), Chile (Chilean), Ireland (Irish), and Germany (German).

I have even had linguistics professors contact me to discuss this phenomenon. I'm definitely not a linguist, but I was fascinated when I first hear this new sound and way of communicating and I wanted to document it.

One person even explained that it may come from the old Ostrobothnian / Wetrobothnian / Nordland dialect continuum.

Maybe I should start a new channel named Unusual Sounds Around the World: Exploring Fascinating Cultural Phenomena. ;-)

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00:00 Ingressive Sound #1
00:10 Ingressive Sound #2
00:12 Ingressive Sound #3
00:24 Ingressive Sound #4
00:34 Ingressive Sound #5
00:52 Ingressive Sound #6
01:11 Ingressive Sound #7