Hichiku dialect
| Hichiku Japanese | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Japan |
| Region | western Kyūshū |
Native speakers | (no estimate available) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog |
hich1237[1] |
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Hichiku dialect area (orange) | |
The Hichiku dialect (肥筑方言 Hichiku hōgen) is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in the western Kyushu. The name Hichiku (肥筑) is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Hizen (肥前), Higo (肥後), Chikuzen (筑前) and Chikugo (筑後), names of old provinces in there.
The Hichiku dialect is:
- Hakata dialect (western Fukuoka Prefecture, formerly known as Chikuzen Province, especially Hakata district in Fukuoka)
- Chikugo dialect (southern Fukuoka Prefecture, formerly known as Chikugo Province)
- Chikuhō dialect (central Fukuoka Prefecture such as Iizuka)
- Saga dialect (Saga Prefecture)
- Nagasaki dialect (Nagasaki Prefecture)
- Sasebo dialect (northern Nagasaki Prefecture centered Sasebo)
- Hirado dialect (Hirado Island, west of Nagasaki Prefecture)
- Kumamoto dialect (Kumamoto Prefecture)
- Hita dialect (Hita, southwestern Oita Prefecture)
- Iki dialect (Iki Island of Nagasaki Prefecture)
- Tsushima dialect (Tsushima Island of Nagasaki Prefecture)
- Gotō dialect (Gotō Islands of Nagasaki Prefecture)