My division is Language at ICU. Now, I take two foundation classes. One is "Approaches to the study of language" and another is "Introduction to the study of the Japanese language". At "Approaches to the study of language" class, we learned about dialect. I'm from Hiroshima so I have a lot of dialect like "~jakee" or "taigii" and so on. "~jakee" means "dakara" in the Japanese standard language and "so" in English. Also, "taigii" means "mendoukusai" in the Japanese standard language and "troublesome" in English.
Dialect is surveyed at 2400 areas in Japan using a riddle form from 1955 to 1965. It was very interested to me that the dialect is roughly divided into three. "Eastern dialect" , "Western dialect" and "Ryukyu dialect". They have some equivalent hiragana. Eastern "i" equal Western "o" equal Ryukyu's "u". For example, Eastern Japanese people say "iru" that means "be present" but Western people say "oru" and Ryukyu people say "uru".
Of course we have more and more small division of dialect. There are some similar words and there also are some very different words. For example, we say "arigatou" that means "thank you" in most area, but in the Izumo district that is in Shimane prefecture, they say "dandan".
However, by the advance of mass media, the standard language spread out to whole Japan, so some dialects have not been used. I think dialects show the characteristic of the area so I want the dialects exist. To make exsist dialects, we should talk with elederly people who know dialect well.
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Your article was very interesting. For me, using computers is very "taijii". But I will grow accustomed to it and say "dandan" to Chris for giving the good opportunity to use it.
I like dialect. When I was child, I long dialect so much,and I use
direct in Osaka that I was tought by my friends.
Please, you treasure your dilect.
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