ほうげん – Vocabulary details

ほうげん

Noun

1. dialect; provincialism

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direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)

word; remark; statement

Hokkaido dialect

mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)

dialectology

大おお阪さかのほうげんは聞きき取とり難がたい。

It's hard to understand the Osaka dialect.

彼かれらは南なん部ぶのほうげんで話はなしていた。

They were speaking in a Southern dialect.

これはスコットランドのほうげんで書かかれた詩しです。

This is a poem written in Scottish dialect.

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