The Hichiku dialect Hichiku hōgen (肥筑方言) is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in western Kyushu.[1][2] 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), the names of old provinces.
| Hichiku Japanese | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Japan |
| Region | western Kyūshū |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | hich1237 |
 Hichiku dialect area (orange) | |
- Hichiku dialect
- Chikuzen dialect (western Fukuoka Prefecture, formerly known as Chikuzen Province, includes the Hakata dialect of Hakata district in Fukuoka)
- Chikugo dialect (southern Fukuoka Prefecture, formerly known as Chikugo Province)
- 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)
References
edit- ^ Kido, Yasuhito (2015). "On the Syntactic Structure of Bai and Tai in Hichiku Dialect | Collections | Kyushu University Library". 九州大学言語学論集 (in Japanese). 35. doi:10.15017/1518719. hdl:2324/1518719.
- ^ "視点と言語表現:移動動詞「行く/来る」の使い分けについて". 東京女子大学言語文化研究 (in Japanese). 23: 36–51. 2015-03-01. Archived from the original on 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2022-12-23.