Hakata dialect
| Hakata Japanese | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Japan |
| Region | Fukuoka |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | haka1241 |
| IETF | ja-u-sd-jp40 |
Hakata dialect (博多弁, Hakata-ben) is a Japanese dialect spoken in Fukuoka city.[1] Hakata dialect originated in Hakata commercial district, while a related Fukuoka dialect (福岡弁, Fukuoka-ben) was spoken in the central district.[2] Hakata dialect has spread throughout the city and its suburbs. Most Japanese regard Hakata dialect as the dialect typical of Fukuoka Prefecture, so it is sometimes called Fukuoka-ben.[citation needed ]
Hakata dialect is being increasingly spoken in television interviews in Fukuoka, where previously standard Japanese was expected.[citation needed ]
Grammar
[edit ]The basic grammar of Hakata dialect is similar to other Hichiku dialects such as Saga dialect, Nagasaki dialect, and Kumamoto dialect. For example, Hakata dialect uses to or tto as a question, e.g., "What are you doing?", realized in standard Japanese as nani o shiteiru no?, is nan ba shiyo tto? or nan shitō to? in Hakata and other Hichiku dialects.
References
[edit ]- ^ Smith, Jennifer L. (1998). Silva, David (ed.). Japanese/Korean linguistics. Vol. 8. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Linguistics Association. pp. 611–627. ISBN 0-937073-56-3. OCLC 213536899.
- ^ Levander, Gabriel (2020). A study of bai and tai : A sociolinguistic variation study of the sentence-final particles bai and tai used in the Fukuoka dialect.
External links
[edit ]- Fukuoka-ben Study Website - u-biq
- 単純明快博多弁辞典 (in Japanese)
