方ほう言げん
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Meanings
Noun
1. dialect; provincialism
Kanji used
Pitch accent
ほうげん
ほうげん
Used in vocabulary
方ほう言げん周しゅう圏けん論ろん
center versus periphery theory
Noun
新しん方ほう言げん
new dialect; new regional dialect
Noun
社しゃ会かい方ほう言げん
sociolect; social dialect
Noun
方ほう言げん量りょう
number of dialectal versions of a word
Noun
方ほう言げん連れん続ぞく体たい
dialect continuum; dialect chain
Noun
沖おき縄なわ方ほう言げん
Okinawan (language); Okinawan dialect
Noun
本ほん土ど方ほう言げん
mainland dialects (of Japanese, as opposed to the Ryukyu languages)
Noun
Examples9
What we call 'Standard English' is only one of the many dialects spoken all over the world.
They were speaking in a Southern dialect.
This is a poem written in Scottish dialect.
Tom always makes fun of John because of his dialect.
The linguist is quite familiar with the dialect.
Strictly speaking, Chinese consists of hundreds of dialects.