Sanuki dialect

{{Short description|Japanese dialect of Kagawa Prefecture}}

{{Infobox language

|name = Sanuki dialect

|altname = Kagawa Japanese

|states = Japan

|region = Kagawa

|speakers = 1 million{{cn|date=May 2014}}

|date = no date

|ref =

|familycolor = Altaic

|fam1 = Japonic

|fam2 = Japanese

|fam3 = Western Japanese

|fam4 = Shikoku

|isoexception = dialect

|glotto = kaga1258

|glottorefname = Kagawa-ben

|ietf = ja-u-sd-jp37

}}

{{nihongo|Sanuki dialect|讃岐弁|Sanuki-ben}} is the Japanese dialect of Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku.{{Cite web |title=讃岐弁ネイティブへの道 ~方言のご紹介~ |地域のトピックス|FURUSATO |url=https://www.furusato-web.jp/topics/p47398/ |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=地方移住応援webマガジン「Furusato フルサト」 |language=ja}}{{Cite web |title=讃岐弁聞っきょる?使いよる? {{!}} 気になること調べてみた {{!}} まいぷれ[高松市] |url=http://takamatsu.mypl.net/mp/now_takamatsu/?sid=56461 |access-date=2023-09-20 |website=まいぷれ「高松市」 |language=ja}}

Features

The accent is based on the Kyoto-Osaka or {{nihongo|Keihan accent|京阪式アクセント}}. There are some differences in vocabulary between the western and eastern sides of the prefecture, and the eastern and western dialects are referred to as the {{nihongo|Tōsan Dialect|東讃弁|Tōsan-ben}} and the {{nihongo|Seisan Dialect|西讃弁|Seisan-ben}} respectively.

References

{{Reflist}}

{{Japanese language}}

Category:Japanese dialects

{{ja-lang-stub}}