Continuing the discussion from Wa = Ya? [faamu vs faamuya]:
Hello,
I wanted to pick this one back up after remembering it and having a good example. I noticed how the interrogative particle wa sounds like ya or a. In this video, the girl says: an bɛ se ka plaqué a? (How can we get dumped?). In this video: i ma à ye a?
Thanks
Hi, Malik!
In the first video I don’t hear anything after the verb really. I hear:
An bɛ se ka plaquer trente-et-un na!
'We can get dumped on the 31st!
On this second sentence, I’m not sure. Sometimes, I don’t think that I hear anything:
I m’à ye?
“You don’t see?” (as in, “Don’t you get it?”)
But upon a lot of close listening, I do maybe hear a slight “a” vowel sound after ye. In this case, I think you can attribute it potentially to a fast and loose pronunciation of I m’à ye wa? that blends “ye” and “wa” together a bit, but with w being weakened:
I m’à ye wa? [I m’à ye ʷa]
And after noticing it, it did make me think that this is actually something that I myself would do if I was trying to “voice” a certain kind of laid-back persona. (I see some parallels with “Yaa mean?” as a version of “You know what I mean?” in English.) I actually went back into the Na baro kè corpus and I found some other examples where we could check, so perhaps I’m make a little YouTube video 
If you’d like to discuss one of these specific examples more, think about making them a single topic with the sentence in the title. I ni ce!