Japanese dialects
Japanese dialects (日本の方言, Nihon no hōgen) are the dialects of the Japanese language. There are four dialect groups in mainland Japan: Hachijō, Eastern (including Tokyo), Western (including Kyoto) and Kyushu.
The Ryukyuan languages of Okinawa Prefecture (and parts of Kagoshima Prefecture) are not dialects of Japanese and a Japanese speaker wouldn't understand them.[1]
Japanese Dialects Media
Eastern Japanese dialects are blue, Western Japanese tan. Green dialects have both Eastern and Western features. Kyushu dialects are orange; southern Kyushu is quite distinctive.Template:Image reference needed
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Kyoto type (tone+downstep)* Tokyo type (downstep)*Map of Japanese pitch-accent types. The divide between Kyoto and Tokyo types is used as the Eastern–Western Japanese boundary in the main map.Template:Image reference needed
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Copula isoglosses. The blue–orange da/ja divide corresponds to the pitch-accent divide apart from Gifu and Sado.(blue: da, red: ja, yellow: ya; orange and purple: iconically for red+yellow and red+blue; white: all three.)
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Akita dialect area in dark blue.
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Amami Ōshima in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
The location of Awaji Island
Map of the former Japanese provinces, with Harima highligted
Prefectures of Japan Bingo region
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Prefectures of Japan Gunma
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Map of Japan with highlight on Fukuoka city
Related pages
References
- ↑ Heinrich, Patrick (2014-08-25). "Use them or lose them: There's more at stake than language in reviving Ryukyuan tongues". The Japan Times. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
