Yatn.adj.

1984 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 Sept. (Eastern ed.) 35/2 People don't drawl in New Orleans. There are a number of accents ranging from ‘Yat’ (derived from ‘Where y'at’) to Cajun, redneck, and ‘uptown’ (New Orleans uptown). But no drawls. Go to Atlanta for drawls, y'all.

2000 A. A. Metcalf How we Talk 33 Like working-class speech styles in other parts of the country, Yat has spread beyond the original boundaries of class and district to ‘become a symbol of identity’ with increasing prestige.

2015 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 12 Apr. (Late ed.) (Travel section) 1 Louisiana..may as well be its own separate country, a place where the residents just happen to speak American English, except when they're speaking Cajun French or Yat or some other regional dialect.

1984 C. Kolb Dolphin Guide to New Orleans (rev. ed.) 131 The harsh, twangy ‘Brooklynese’ you hear is the New Orleans native accent. Locals refer to people who speak this way as ‘yats’. This is because ‘Where yat’ (‘where you at’) is a New Orleans greeting.

1990 J. Smith New Orleans Mourning (1991) 47 She would go to neighborhoods she was barely aware of and truly meet the people, the real people, the yats and the ethnics.

2006 P. Z. Brite Soul Kitchen 62 Rickey and G-man themselves were local to the core, the kind of New Orleanians who called themselves yats and couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

1985 Festival Amer. Folklife 11 The mingling of people in New Orleans has led to a city of many accents, the most pronounced of which is called the ‘Yat’ accent of the Irish Channel section and the city's Ninth Ward.

2000 P. Johnson & C. O'Brien World Food: New Orleans 37 ‘Ersters,’ as they're called in the local Yat dialect, are farmed on the Gulf coast and are also taken from nearby rocks and reefs.

2014 Reveille (Louisiana State Univ.) (Nexis) 8 Oct. (Opinion section) 1 A Baltimore dialect, a thick Yat accent, and the General American accent all newscasters are forced to adopt are just as valid as one another.