Hichiku dialect

{{Short description|Japanese dialects of western Kyūshū, Japan}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Hichiku Japanese

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|states = Japan

|region = western Kyūshū

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|familycolor = Altaic

|fam1 = Japonic

|fam2 = Japanese

|fam3 = Kyūshū

|isoexception = dialect

|glotto = hich1237

|glottorefname= Hichiku

|map = Hichiku_dialects.png

|mapcaption = Hichiku dialect area (orange)

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The Hichiku dialect {{Nihongo|2=肥筑方言|3=Hichiku hōgen}} is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in western Kyushu.{{Cite journal |title=On the Syntactic Structure of Bai and Tai in Hichiku Dialect {{!}} Collections {{!}} Kyushu University Library |date=2015 |volume=35 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/2324/1518719 |language=ja |doi=10.15017/1518719|hdl=2324/1518719 |last1=Kido |first1=Yasuhito |journal=九州大学言語学論集 }}{{Cite journal |last= |date=2015-03-01 |title=視点と言語表現:移動動詞「行く/来る」の使い分けについて |url=https://twcu.repo.nii.ac.jp/index.php?active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&page_id=13&block_id=29&item_id=19935&item_no=1 |journal=東京女子大学言語文化研究 |language=ja |volume=23 |pages=36–51 |access-date=2022-12-23 |archive-date=2022-12-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224014208/https://twcu.repo.nii.ac.jp/index.php?active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&page_id=13&block_id=29&item_id=19935&item_no=1 |url-status=dead }} 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.

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• 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)
• Ōmuta dialect (Ōmuta)
• Yanagawa dialect (Yanagawa)
• Saga dialect (Saga Prefecture)
• Karatsu dialect (northern Saga Prefecture centered Karatsu)
• Tashiro dialect (easternmost Saga Prefecture centered Tashiro)
• 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)

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