ほうげん
Meanings
Noun
1. dialect; provincialism
Pitch accent
うげ
うげん
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)
dialectology
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.