Hichiku dialect
Japanese dialects of western Kyūshū, Japan
Hichiku Japanese | |
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Native to | Japan |
Region | western Kyūshū |
Language family | Japonic
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ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | hich1237 |
Hichiku dialect area (orange) |
The Hichiku dialect Hichiku hōgen (肥筑方言) is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in western Kyushu.[1][2] The name Hichiku (肥筑) is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Hizen (肥前), Higo (肥後), Chikuzen (筑前) and Chikugo (筑後), the names of old provinces.
- Hichiku dialect
- Chikuzen dialect (western Fukuoka Prefecture, formerly known as Chikuzen Province, includes the Hakata dialect of Hakata district in Fukuoka)
- Chikugo dialect (southern Fukuoka Prefecture, formerly known as Chikugo Province)
- Saga dialect (Saga Prefecture)
- Nagasaki dialect (Nagasaki Prefecture)
- Sasebo dialect (northern Nagasaki Prefecture centered Sasebo)
- Hirado dialect (Hirado Island, west of Nagasaki Prefecture)
- Kumamoto dialect (Kumamoto Prefecture)
- Hita dialect (Hita, southwestern Oita Prefecture)
- Iki dialect (Iki Island of Nagasaki Prefecture)
- Tsushima dialect (Tsushima Island of Nagasaki Prefecture)
- Gotō dialect (Gotō Islands of Nagasaki Prefecture)
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Kyūshū | |
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Ryukyuan |
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Grammar and
vocabulary
vocabulary
- Japanese grammar
- Verb conjugations
- Godan and ichidan verbs
- Irregular verbs
- Pronouns
- Adjectives
- Possessives
- Particles
- Topic marker
- Counter words
- Numerals
- Native words (yamato kotoba)
- Sino-Japanese vocabulary
- Loan words (gairaigo)
- Wasei-eigo
- Wasei-kango
- Engrish
- Honorific speech
- Honorifics
- Court lady language (nyōbō kotoba)
- Role language (yakuwarigo)
- Gender differences
- Dictionaries
- Pitch accent
- Rendaku
- Sound symbolism
- Kanji pronunciation sources