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方ほう言げん
Meanings
Noun
1. dialect; provincialism
Alt. forms
方ほう言げん
98%
ほうげん
1%
Kanji used
方
way
言
say
Pitch accent
ほ
うげ
ん
ほ
うげん
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Used in: 461
Composed of
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
word; remark; statement
Used in vocabulary (14 in total)
Hokkaido dialect
mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)
dialectology
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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.
Strictly speaking, Chinese consists of hundreds of dialects.
The linguist is fluent in several Chinese dialects.