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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. [1]
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The most widely spoken language in Japan is Japanese, which is separated into several dialects with Tokyo dialect considered Standard Japanese. In addition to the Japanese language, Ryūkyūan languages are spoken in Okinawa and parts of Kagoshima in the Ryūkyū Islands .
The Tokyo dialect (Tōkyō hōgen, Tōkyō-ben, Tōkyō-go (東京方言, 東京弁, 東京語)) is a variety of Japanese language spoken in modern Tokyo. As a whole, it is generally considered to be Standard Japanese, though specific aspects of slang or pronunciation can vary by area and social class. Yamanote (red) and Shitamachi (blue)
The proto-language of the family has been reconstructed by using a combination of internal reconstruction from Old Japanese and by applying the comparative method to Old Japanese (including eastern dialects) and Ryukyuan. [74] The major reconstructions of the 20th century were produced by Samuel Elmo Martin and Shirō Hattori. [74] [75]
すべて Subete の no 人間 ningen は、 wa, 生まれながら umarenagara に ni して shite 自由 jiyū で de あり、 ari, かつ、 katsu, 尊厳 songen と to 権利 kenri と to に ni ついて tsuite 平等 byōdō で de ある。 aru. 人間 Ningen は、 wa, 理性 risei と to 良心 ryōshin と to を o 授けられて sazukerarete おり、 ori, 互い tagai に ni ...
Yoichi Fujiwara noted in "Three Major Dialects of the Inland Sea Region" [j] (part of Japanese Dialects of the Shōwa Period [k]) that the vicinity of the former Ikuwa Village (now part of the Hokudan-chō Tsuna-gun area of Awaji City) had a H-L-H type intonation (e.g., dokomade it-temo ("wherever go. concessive") would be pronounced ...
In Wakayama Prefecture, unlike in standard Japanese, the diphthong ei (えい) is not always merged to a long e sound. [6] [7] For example, sensei (せんせい teacher) has its final i clearly pronounced. This is shared with fairly distant dialects such some Izu Islands dialects and the Kyushu dialect group. [8] [9] [10]