Umpaku dialect information

Umpaku Japanese
Umpaku Japanese
Native to	Japan
Region	eastern San'in
Language family	Japonic Japanese Western Japanese Umpaku Japanese; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	umpa1238
	Umpaku-dialect area

The Umpaku dialect (雲伯方言, Unpaku hōgen) is a group of Japanese dialects spoken in central San'in.^[1] The name Unpaku (雲伯) is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Izumo (出雲) and Hōki (伯耆), the names of former provinces of this region.

An example of Izumo dialect being spoken, 2015

The Umpaku dialects are:

Izumo dialect (eastern Shimane Prefecture, formerly known as Izumo Province)
Yonago dialect (western Tottori Prefecture centered on Yonago)
Oki dialect (Oki islands of Shimane Prefecture)

^ Boberg, Charles; Nerbonne, John; Watt, Dominic (2018-01-04). The Handbook of Dialectology. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 563–566. ISBN 978-1-118-82755-0.

[1] Boberg, Charles; Nerbonne, John; Watt, Dominic (2018-01-04). The Handbook of Dialectology. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 563–566. ISBN 978-1-118-82755-0.