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Mikagi-sama

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:57 pm


Which parts of Japan have a different Dialect other than Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya. Like I was curious because I saw Wakayama and it is near Osaka/Kobe and I was wondering if they speak Osaka-ben.

Plus, it doesn't matter which dialect you speak right? Like if you speak Tokyo-ben and go to Osaka and talk but people will still understand you and you understand them.

Plus, why are there dialects? confused Questions because I want to check out Wakayama sometime.
PostPosted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:48 pm


Answr one:
theres about 2 dialects for each prefecture, and if you add in subdialects thats a total of 150 dialects.

answer 2:

*sigh* malinformed.

A) english has dialects, the most common known

~british
~american
~canadian/american (this is standard english by the way, canadaians dont talk like you think 3nodding )
~calofornian
~southern american
~australian


Etc.

Almost every lnauage on the face of the eart has dialects, and you act like this dialect thing hit you now? 悪れぇ~なぁー 

anyway, japan is divided by mountains and such so dialects developed because of seperation, even if there werent mountains, thered be about 5 dialects.

Aiko_589


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:12 am


Aiko_589
Answr one:
theres about 2 dialects for each prefecture, and if you add in subdialects thats a total of 150 dialects.

answer 2:

*sigh* malinformed.

A) english has dialects, the most common known

~british
~american
~canadian/american (this is standard english by the way, canadaians dont talk like you think 3nodding )
~calofornian
~southern american
~australian


Etc.

Almost every lnauage on the face of the eart has dialects, and you act like this dialect thing hit you now? 悪れぇ~なぁー 

anyway, japan is divided by mountains and such so dialects developed because of seperation, even if there werent mountains, thered be about 5 dialects.


Lol well I knew about those dialects lol but we only think about them as accents and the words we don't use are slang. French has it too I learned razz I speak Quebec/ a bit of Acadien. Different from France though.

Lol I'm glad about that, if/when I go to Japan I'd like to see all of it and I don't have the time to learn all the different dialects so yay at least!


Thank you very much for the information, Aiko-san m(_ _)m
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