貯金も確かにありやな！！ お金があったら何でも出来るし. I'm definitely into saving money too! If you have money you can do anything.
My young friend wrote this to me. Would someone be kind enough to explain the やな for me?
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や is the copula in Kansai dialect. Its counterpart in standard Japanese is だ. な is a sentence final particle expecting agreement (to oneself or to other person). It is similar to ね except that it is masculine.
Added upon Flaw's suggestion:
あり used here is a slang term meaning "an acceptable idea", "can be dealt with", or "cool". Another slang expression with a similar meaning is いける. The slang なし is the negation of あり. For usages of these, you can do a search with phrases like ありかなしか.
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2Ah but ありや（な） is not standard Japanese nor Tokyo-ben...– user1016Feb 12, 2012 at 14:57
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@oldergod The words あり and なし themselves are never slangs, because they are the classical forms of ある and ない. Only this usage あり+copula is slangy.– GradiusJul 3, 2012 at 10:17
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@Gradius read the conversation again then. Because I know they are not. Sawa said so.– oldergodJul 3, 2012 at 22:28
有難いor或るare related to有るor在る. But they have evolved into different words. They are not variants of a same word.