| Hichiku Japanese | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Japan |
| Region | western Kyūshū |
| Language codes | |
| 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)
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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)
References
- ^ Kido, Yasuhito (2015). "On the Syntactic Structure of Bai and Tai in Hichiku Dialect | Collections | Kyushu University Library". 九州大学言語学論集 (in Japanese). 35. doi: 10.15017/1518719. hdl: 2324/1518719.
- ^ "視点と言語表現:移動動詞「行く/来る」の使い分けについて". 東京女子大学言語文化研究 (in Japanese). 23: 36–51. 2015-03-01.