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Enter 嗯(polyphonic)：

ng1: indeed, so what? ng2: huh? ng3: what? ng4: yeah, yes. ng~: nooo.

In Welsh there's (Nag-)Ydw and (Nag-)Oes, and Dim.

No Shi? I had no idea about Mandarin.

Shi means "is", not "yes" in Mandarin.

who sais yes isn't a contraction of i'is

Surprisingly, this is partially true. It's a contraction but an older one.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/yes

There are many yes-like words, but not exactly "yes". There's "it is", "it's correct", and "it's good" that may be used depending on context to mean yes.