Yooper

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Yoopers are a North american minority ethnicity, originating from the upper peninsula of Michigan.

History

Culture

Dialect

the Yooper dialect (sometimes referred to as "Yoopanese"), is a dense variant of the greater midwest dialect, however in recent years it has drifted closer to Standard canadian english. The Yooper dialect is associated with certain features: the alveolar stops /d/ and /t/ in place of the English dental fricatives /ð/ and /θ/ (like in "then" and "thigh", so that then (/ðɛn/) becomes den (/dɛn/), etc.); the German/Scandinavian affirmative ja [jä] to mean 'yeah' or 'yes' (often Anglicized in spelling to ya); the filler or question tag eh or hey at the ends of sentences, as in Canadian English; notably raised nuclei in the vowels /aʊ/ and /aɪ/; the word youse as a second-personal plural noun, like you guys in neighboring dialects; and a marked deletion of to the (e.g., "I'm going store," "We went mall," and "We'll go Green Bay"), influenced by Finnish, which does not have any articles corresponding to a, an, or the.

National Symbols

Micronations with sizeable Yooper populations

The Grand Duchy of Marquette has somewhere around 66% yoopanese population.

See also

Ethnic groups

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