Map of Japanese dialects (north of the heavy grey line)
The dialects (方言, hōgen) of the Japanese language fall into two primary clades, Eastern (including modern capital Tokyo) and Western (including old capital Kyoto), with the dialects of Kyushu and Hachijō Island often distinguished as additional branches, the latter perhaps the most divergent of all. The Ryukyuan languages of Okinawa Prefecture and the southern islands of Kagoshima Prefecture form a separate branch of the Japonic family, and are not Japanese dialects, although they are sometimes referred to as such.
eastern dialects were rarely inherited by modern dialects, except for a few language islands such as Hachijo Island. In the Early Middle Japanese era, there...
reconstruction from Old Japanese, or comparison with the Ryukyuan languages and Japanesedialects. The Chinese writing system was imported to Japan from Baekje around...
Kansai dialect (関西弁, Kansai-ben, also known as Kansai-hōgen (関西方言)) is a group of Japanesedialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan. In Japanese...
particular morae in most Japanesedialects. The nature and location of the accent for a given word may vary between dialects. For instance, the word for...
periods: The dialects of Eastern Old Japanese were replaced by the Kyoto dialect (Middle Japanese), the descendant of Western Old Japanese during the Heian...
Eastern Japanese, including most dialects from Nagoya east, including the modern standard Tokyo dialect. Western Japanese, including most dialects west of...
"zu" are confused in Sado, Toyama, Noto dialects. "i" and "e" are also confused in Toyama and Noto dialects. In Hokuriku region, various pitch accents...
language in Japan is Japanese, which is separated into several dialects with Tokyo dialect considered Standard Japanese. In addition to the Japanese language...
Old Japanese (上代日本語, Jōdai Nihon-go) is the oldest attested stage of the Japanese language, recorded in documents from the Nara period (8th century)....
Northern Izu Archipelago (or Islands) dialects (Japanese: 北部伊豆諸島方言 hokubu izu shoto hogen) are dialects of Japanese spoken on the inhabited islands north...
considered to be Standard Japanese, though specific aspects of slang or pronunciation can vary by area and social class. Traditional dialects in central Tokyo...
Okinawan Japanese (ウチナーヤマトゥグチ, 沖縄大和口, Uchinaa Yamatu-guchi) is the Japanese language as spoken by the people of Okinawa Islands. Okinawan Japanese's accents...
similarities with other nearby dialects in Kyushu. The I adjective in Standard Japanese becomes "か" (ka) in Kumamoto dialect: うまい (umai, "tasty") > うまか (umaka)...
Kagomma-ben, Kago'ma-ben, Kagoima-ben), is a group of dialects or dialect continuum of the Japanese language spoken mainly within the area of the former...
dialect, whilst a broader definition encompasses all Shizuoka dialects. This article will focus on all dialects found in the prefecture. The dialects...
The Tosa dialect (Japanese: 土佐弁 tosa-ben) is a Japanese Shikoku dialect spoken in central and eastern Kochi Prefecture (former Tosa Province), including...
The Kanagawa dialect (Japanese: 神奈川方言 kanagawa-ken hōgen) is the term used to describe the Japanesedialects spoken in Kanagawa Prefecture. As there is...
standard Japanese was expected.[citation needed] The basic grammar of Hakata dialect is similar to other Hichiku dialects such as Saga dialect, Nagasaki...
is a major dialect of the wider Hichiku group of Kyushu Japanese, with similarities to the Chikuzen (including Hakata) and Kumamoto dialects, among others...
The Umpaku dialect (雲伯方言, Unpaku hōgen) is a group of Japanesedialects spoken in central San'in. The name Unpaku (雲伯) is constructed by extracting a representative...
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