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Kansai Japanese
関西弁
Native to
Japan
Region
Kansai
Language family
Japonic
Japanese
Western Japanese
Kansai Japanese
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
kink1238
Kansai-dialect area
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A label in Kansai dialect. The advertisement, Iwashi o tabena akan!, translates as "You must eat sardines!"A poster written in Kansai dialect. The warning, Chikan wa akan de. Zettai akan de, translates as "Groping is out. Absolutely out."A caution written in Kansai dialect. The warning, Kii tsuke yā, Anta no koto ya de, Sono baggu, translates as "Take care! Do not let your bag get snatched!"
The Kansai dialect (関西弁, Kansai-ben, also known as Kansai-hōgen (関西方言)) is a group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan. In Japanese, Kansai-ben is the common name and it is called Kinki dialect (近畿方言, Kinki-hōgen) in technical terms. The dialects of Kyoto and Osaka are known as Kamigata dialect (上方言葉, Kamigata kotoba, or Kamigata-go (上方語)), and were particularly referred to as such in the Edo period. The Kansai dialect is typified by the speech of Osaka, the major city of Kansai, which is referred to specifically as Osaka-ben. It is characterized as being both more melodic and harsher by speakers of the standard language.[1]
^Omusubi: Japan's Regional Diversity Archived 2006-12-14 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved January 23, 2007
The Kansaidialect (関西弁, Kansai-ben, also known as Kansai-hōgen (関西方言)) is a group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan....
to the Edo period, the dialect of Kinai (now central Kansai) had been the de facto standard form of Japanese, and the dialect of Edo (now Tokyo) took...
yaki, meaning "grilled". It is an example of konamono (konamon in the Kansaidialect), or flour-based Japanese cuisine. It is also called by an abbreviated...
The Okuyoshino dialect (Japanese: 奥吉野方言 okuyoshino hogen) is a Kansaidialect of Japanese spoken in several villages in the Okuyoshino region of southern...
of the influence of the Kansaidialect, the modern Mino dialect generally uses ya (や) and is compared to the Nagoya dialect which uses da (だ) for copulas...
called Kansai-ben, have their own variations of pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Kansai-ben is the group of dialects spoken in the Kansai area,...
a side dish with rice. It is an example of konamono (konamon in the Kansaidialect), or flour-based Japanese cuisine. Takoyaki was first popularized in...
Niigata dialect is classified into Tōkai-Tōsan dialect and Tōhoku dialect and southern Fukui dialect is classified into Kansaidialect. Kaga dialect (southern...
dialect shows intermediate characteristics between eastern Japanese (including standard Tokyo dialect) and western Japanese (including Kansaidialect)...
to the quadrigrade class) and Western Kansaidialect regions. The dialect shares many features with the dialects of the cities of Osaka, Kobe, and Wakayama...
appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region (modern Tokyo) in the Early Modern...
Kyoto-Osaka-type accent or its variations, and are similar to Kansaidialect, but Chūgoku dialect uses a Tokyo-type accent. The differences between zi and...
word for "river" is [ka.waꜜ] in the Tokyo dialect, with the accent on the second mora, but in the Kansaidialect it is [kaꜜ.wa]. A final [i] or [ɯ] is often...
oneself and speaking in the first person, vary between gender, formality, dialect and region where Japanese is spoken. In modern Japanese grammar, pronouns...
as in the original Greek. The name horumon is also similar to the Kansaidialect term hōrumon (放る物), which means "discarded goods". Horumonyaki has a...
(計算 calculation) in the Tosa dialect is keisan (ケイサン), as opposed to keesan (ケーサン) in standard Japanese and Kansaidialects. Among older speakers, a nasalised...
influenced by the Kyūshū dialect, while the central and eastern districts have accents similar to Kansaidialect. The Iyo dialect has numerous characteristics...
associated with the Osaka region, and manzai comedians often speak in the Kansaidialect during their acts. In 1933, Yoshimoto Kogyo, a large entertainment conglomerate...
CArd and is also a play on the phrase "Iko ka" (行こか), an informal, Kansaidialect invitation meaning "Shall we go?" The mascot for ICOCA is a blue platypus...
country code AHO Aho, a phrase in the Kansaidialect of Japanese, meaning "idiot", see Baka (Japanese word)#Dialectal Aboriginal Housing Office, a statutory...
or motsu — offal. Horumon means "discarded items" and comes from the Kansaidialect. Rebā — beef liver. From the German word "Leber". Tetchan — intestine...
common honorifics include: San (さん), sometimes pronounced han (はん) in Kansaidialect, is the most commonplace honorific and is a title of respect typically...
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