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ほうげん
Meanings
Noun
1. dialect; provincialism
Alt. forms
方ほう言げん
98%
ほうげん
1%
Pitch accent
ほ
うげ
ん
ほ
うげん
Used in: 19
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
dialect continuum; dialect chain
center versus periphery theory
new dialect; new regional dialect
sociolect; social dialect
Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect
dialectal kanji; kanji only used in a specific region
acrolect
subdialect
basilect
number of dialectal versions of a word
eastern old Japanese
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.
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