As a result of social and commercial contact between the two cities, and the influx of immigrants from the same countries, the traditional dialect of New Orleans, Louisiana, known locally as Yat, bears distinctive similarities with the New York dialect, including palatalization of the vowel, a similar split in the short-A system, and fortition of ( See below for more information on these features ).

Yat is a dialect of English spoken in the Greater New Orleans Area.

The term refers to those people who speak with the Yat accent and dialect of New Orleanians throughout the city.

While the term Yat is usually reserved specifically for the strongest varieties of the New Orleans dialect, the term often refers specifically to speakers of Yat in some parts of the city and the inner suburbs of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Though Yat is said to be the language of the Ninth Ward, " Yat " is one of many sub-dialects of the New Orleans dialect that is spoken throughout the city.

Today, few citizens of German or Irish background occupy the Third Ward, however, the presence of immigrant groups in the city of New Orleans has inevitably lead to the formation of the Yat dialect

The Yat dialect is the most pronounced version of the New Orleans Accent.

is a chant commonly tied to the Yat dialect and used in support of the New Orleans Saints football team.

The Yat dialect is seldom heard when New Orleans is depicted in movies and television shows.

** very wide articulation of the Yat vowel (); still preserved in the archaic Bulgarian dialect of the Rhodope mountains ;

Zhongshan was the birthplace of first president of China and native Cantonese dialect of Sun Yat Sen.

In Penang, Malaysia, the Penang Philomatic Union had its premises at 120 Armenian Street in 1910, during the time when Sun spent more than four months in Penang, convened the historic " Penang Conference " to launch the fundraising campaign for the Huanghuagang Uprising and founded the Kwong Wah Yit Poh ; this house, which has been preserved as the Sun Yat Sen Museum Penang ( formerly called the Sun Yat Sen Penang Base ), was visited by President designate Hu Jintao in 2002.

Symonds Yat East is on the Gloucestershire side of the river, it has two hotels, a canoe hire centre and the Saracens Head public house.

Symonds Yat West is on the Herefordshire side and has a large caravan and camping site, as well as a small amusement park.

Symonds Yat West also has visitor attractions including a maze built in 1977 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, and the Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo.

The River Wye at Symonds Yat has cut a deep gorge in the Carboniferous Limestone exposing impressive cliff faces, some of which are used for rock climbing.

Symonds Yat has a particularly popular series of rapids that was purchased by the British Canoe Union in 2003 to preserve the rapids for recreational use, canoe trips through the rapids stop next at Monmouth.

While there has been an influx of Cajuns into the city since the oil boom of the later 20th century and while there are some similarities due to shared roots, Cajun culture has had relatively little influence upon Creole culture and thus Yat culture.

A southern tendency that shifts vowel sounds known as monophthongization has distinctly separated Yat from other port city dialects.

This trend has been challenged, though, in light of post-Katrina New Orleans representation, like HBO's Treme and Wernor Herzog's The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, both of which feature actual New Orleans locals either speaking in Yat or one of its variations.

Yat becomes Consort to Ko Yee-hong due to their marriage ( becoming pregnant soon after ), and the Princess no longer has to worry about succession as her new found brother will eventually become Emperor, allowing her and Nin to live happily ever after.

The Grace Building was listed on the Register of the National Estate in 1980 and placed on the NSW State Heritage Register in 1999 The building was purchased for redevelopment in 1995 by the Low Yat Group of Malaysia. Since June 1997, it has been used as a luxury hotel, " the Grace Sydney ".

In the limited series Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds, it is revealed that, in the future time period of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Sodam Yat is still alive, acting as the last Guardian of the Universe, and has somehow regained the bulk of his Ion powers.

The book is famous for its rich depiction of New Orleans and the city's dialects, including Yat.

Due to its growth, this church erected a large building at 2 Bonham Road, Mid-levels, in 1926 and was renamed Hop Yat Church ( 合一堂 ).

Kowloon Tong Station serves Kowloon Tong and its vicinity, including Yau Yat Tsuen, the Festival Walk shopping centre, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.

Due to its growth, this church erected a large building in 1926 and was renamed Hop Yat Church ( 合一堂 ).

The view north towards Ross-on-Wye from Symonds Yat Rock, a popular tourist destination in the Forest

Peregrine Falcons can be easily seen nesting from the viewpoint at Symonds Yat rock.

Wye Valley the view from above at Symonds Yat

A footpath leads from the village up to Symonds Yat Rock.

The view north towards Ross-on-Wye from Symonds Yat Rock

A scene from the movie Shadowlands was filmed at Symonds Yat Rock, with the view of the Wye Valley in the background, but it was meant to be another location within the plot of the film.

* BBC archive film of Symonds Yat from 1985

The Drama Centre London was founded in 1963 by a breakaway group of teachers and students from the Central School of Speech and Drama, led by John Blatchley, Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes.

Tung Chung New Town-View towards the city centre from Yat Tung Estate ; Fu Tung Estate in the foreground

In the 1960s Yat Malmgren taught movement, based on principles derived from Laban ; Cicely Berry taught voice to students and later the Royal Shakespeare Company, John Allen, Principal from 1972 to 1978, founded the Glyndebourne Children's Theatre, was the leading organiser of the Communist Party's Unity Theatre, where he coordinated the first Living Newspaper, Busmen ( 1937 ), and was a founding member of the Group Theatre, also in the mid-1930s ; Litz Pisk was Head of Movement ( 1964-1970 ), having previously worked with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in Vienna, and then Michel Saint-Denis at the Old Vic Theatre School

He then proceeds to remove the willpower entity, Ion, from Sodam Yat, effectively turning Daxam's sun from yellow back to red and killing hundreds of Daxamites in the process, and later helps Hector Hammond get out of prison, to pursue the Avarice Entity which is trapped inside Larfleeze's lantern.

Natives often speak with varying degrees of the Brooklyn-esque accent, ranging from a slight intonation to what is considered full Yat.

Yat tends to differ in strength and intonation from neighborhood to neighborhood.

With effect from 11 October 2010, the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall will be closed for redevelopment works, and scheduled to re-open on 8 October 2011 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution.

The xenophobic version of Daxam from which Mon-El and Sodam Yat hail is shown as still existing in the 30th century.

After the Blackest Night, the mysterious mastermind behind the abductions of the emotional spectrum beings manages to reach the self-immolating form of Sodam Yat, kept alive by Ion, and divests the symbiote from his host.