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Yes and no are two words for expressing affirmatives and negatives respectively in english Are you hungry?" "Yes, I am."). Early Middle English had a four-form system, but Modern English has reduced this to a two-form system consisting of yes and no. Some languages do not answer yes-no questions with single words meaning 'yes' or 'no'. At least one, Welsh, is widely but erroneously believed to have no words for yes and no. In fact it has, these being but one of the many ways in which yes-no questions are answered in Welsh. Welsh and Finnish are among several languages that employ echo answers rather than words for yes and no in such circumstances. Other languages have systems named two-form, three-form, and four-form systems, depending on how many words for yes and no they employ. Some languages, such as latin have no yes-no word systems.