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The dialects of the people from the Kansai region, commonly called Kansai-ben, have their own variations of pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Kansai-ben is the group of dialects spoken in the Kansai area, but is often treated as a dialect in its own right. Kansai is one of the most prosperous areas for baseball in Japan.
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.
Kamigata (上方) was the colloquial term for a region today called Kansai (kan, barrier; sai, west) in Japan. [1] This large area encompasses the cities of Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe. The term was also sometimes used to refer only to Kyoto city.
Kansai (or Kinki) region (south-central part) Chūgoku region (western part) San'in region (northern Chūgoku) San'yō region (southern Chūgoku) Shikoku;
Endō-san tanjōbi omedetō (Happy Birthday, Mr. Endō). San (さん), sometimes pronounced han (はん) in Kansai dialect, is the most commonplace honorific and is a title of respect typically used between equals of any age.
But, these are not themselves local public entities under the local autonomy law and national or local government functions cannot be directly transferred to them, unlike the "Union of Kansai governments" (Kansai kōiki-rengō) [12] which has been established by several prefectural governments in the Kansai region.
Aside from the common Kansai dialect copulas, ya (や) and ja (じゃ), de (で) and jo (じょ) are also used. Among these, ja is most typically used by older speakers in mountainous parts of the dialect area. Below are some examples of these copulas in use. Sou da yo, aitsu ga kinou totta no da yo (そうだよ。
Hanshin (阪神, "Ōsaka-Kōbe"), derived from the second kanji from Osaka (大阪) and the first kanji from Kobe (神戸) (but in on-reading instead of kun-reading), refers generally to Osaka, Kobe, and the surrounding area in the Kansai region of Japan.