How did uhn-uh come to mean “no” and uh-huh come to mean “yes” in English?

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Pretty much the title. Also curious if other languages have similar non-word sounds for negation/affirmation.

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Korean has 음, which is hard to accurately romanize for pronunciation but is something like “ih uhm”. It is used in the same way.

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