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The following sentence occurs in The Legend of Zelda:

ナンカ コウテ クレヤ

(This would be なんか買うてくれや！ and was famously translated as "Buy somethin', will
ya!".) From the 買うて, it's obvious he's speaking Kansai-ben, and I suspect that
this usage of や is Kansai-ben as well. (I know that や is used instead of だ in
Kansai-ben, but this is obviously a different usage.) But what does it mean?
Does it indicate some sort of insistence?
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particles dialects copula kansai-ben anime
や in Kansai-ben when it is not だ
This actually most likely Oosaka-ben's variation of 「や」as「よ」, becoming
something like:

> なんか買ってくれよ！

The usage is explained in more detail here:

<http://www.weblio.jp/content/%E3%82%84?dictCode=OSAKA> (Japanese)

**EDIT**

The original quote from the just in case site downtime happens:

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> 「ある」が転じた「やる」の命令形「やれ」の略。言葉の終わりに付けることで、命令敬語や連用形命令語などをやわらげる働きがある。「よ」のように相手をなじる意味は含まれていない。ハンカチ忘れんと行きや、ほかしとくんなはれや、持っておいでや、など。命令形命令語などのあとにつくと乱暴な印象を持つ。持って来いや、はよせんかいや、いてもうたれや、など。
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In Kansaiben, や replaces だ and よ
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