many dialects. Regional variants of Japanese have been confirmed since the Old Japanese era. The Man'yōshū, the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry...

Mitsune dialects (Downhill dialects) Nakanogō & Kashitate dialects (Uphill dialects) Sueyoshi dialect Aogashima dialect Central Old Japanese (including...

reconstruction from Old Japanese, or comparison with the Ryukyuan languages and Japanese dialects. The Chinese writing system was imported to Japan from Baekje around...

Eastern Japanese, including most dialects from Nagoya east, including the modern standard Tokyo dialect. Western Japanese, including most dialects west of...

Kansai dialect (関西弁, Kansai-ben, also known as Kansai-hōgen (関西方言)) is a group of Japanese dialects in the Kansai region (Kinki region) of Japan. In Japanese...

periods: The dialects of Eastern Old Japanese were replaced by the Kyoto dialect (Middle Japanese), the descendant of Western Old Japanese during the Heian...

"zu" are confused in Sado, Toyama, Noto dialects. "i" and "e" are also confused in Toyama and Noto dialects. In Hokuriku region, various pitch accents...

The Kantō dialects include the Tokyo dialect which is the basis of modern standard Japanese. Along with the Tōhoku dialect, Kantō dialects have been characterized...

so that various Japanese dialects became mixed together on Hokkaidō. The relationship of Hokkaidō dialect to the rest of Japanese—and whether there...

considered to be Standard Japanese, though specific aspects of slang or pronunciation can vary by area and social class. Traditional dialects in central Tokyo...