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方ほう言げん
Meanings
Noun
1. dialect; provincialism
Kanji used
方
way
言
say
Pitch accent
ほ
うげ
ん
ほ
うげん
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Composed of
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
word; remark; statement
Used in vocabulary (18 in total)
Hokkaido dialect
mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)
sociolect; social dialect
dialectology
dialect continuum; dialect chain
Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect
new dialect; new regional dialect
dialectal kanji; kanji only used in a specific region
center versus periphery theory
center versus periphery theory
nayashi dialect (spoken in Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures)
nayashi dialect (spoken in Nagano, Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures)
acrolect
number of dialectal versions of a word
subdialect
basilect
Hachijō dialects; Hachijō language
eastern old Japanese
Examples (5 in total)
It's hard to understand the Osaka dialect.
They were speaking in a Southern dialect.
This is a poem written in Scottish dialect.
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