ほうげん
Meanings
Noun
1. ある言語体系における地域的な違いまたは、違った言語体系。方言か類縁別個の言語かを区別する基準は曖昧である。
Kanji used
way
say
Pitch accent
うげ
うげん
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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)
mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)
① 方言についての学問。
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.