Japanese dialect spoken in Western Aomori Prefecture
Tsugaru dialect
Aomori dialect
Tsugaru dialect area.
Native to
Japan
Region
Aomori
Language family
Japonic
Japanese
Eastern Japanese
Tōhoku
Northern
Tsugaru dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
tsug1237
IETF
ja-u-sd-jp02
The Tsugaru dialect (津軽弁, Tsugaru-ben) is a Japanese dialect spoken in western Aomori Prefecture.
The Tsugaru dialect is reputed to be so divergent from standard Japanese for those who are not native speakers, that even people living in the same prefecture may have trouble understanding it.[1][note 1] In 1988, fans of the Tsugaru dialect proclaimed October 23 to be Tsugaru Dialect Day (津軽弁の日, Tsugaru-ben no hi). October 23 is the anniversary of the death of Takagi Kyozo, a famous poet who wrote in the Tsugaru dialect.
In Tsuruta, there is an annual summer Tsugaru-ben competition (津軽弁大会, Tsugaru-ben taikai) in which teams of foreigners create short skits or performances, usually humorous, using the dialect. In June 2009, a short segment featuring the competition was broadcast nationally on NHK.
^Takubo, Yukinori (2018-08-08). Mutual Intelligibility as a measure of linguistic distance and intergenerational transmission(PDF). Approaches to Endangered Languages in Japan and Northeast Asia: Description, Documentation and Revitalization. National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. pp. 16 and 29. doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.12014.66880. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-12-24 – via ResearchGate.
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