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Japanese and dialects

Japanese is used in Japan.

Dialects shown below:  Standard, Amami-Ooshima, Hiroshima, and Kansai
top Standard Japanese

shown as normally written:

[Japanese as normally written]

shown with hiragana ruby text:

[Japanese with hiragana ruby text] 		             

shown as traditionally written:

[Japanese as traditionally written]
top Amami-Ooshima dialect of Japanese

Shima-guchi is used in Japan's Ryukyu region around Amami Ooshima Island.

[Amami-Ooshima dialect of Japanese]
top Hiroshima dialect of Japanese

Hiroshima-ben is used mainly in Hiroshima Prefecture and is similar to its sister dialects in the Chugoku region.
This translation is a southwestern variety of Hiroshima-ben.

[Hiroshima dialect of Japanese (women)] [Hiroshima dialect of Japanese (men)]
top Kansai dialect of Japanese

Kansai-ben is used in the Kansai region of Japan around Osaka, Kyoto, Okayama, Maizuru & Tottori.

[Kansai dialect of Japanese]

Japanese fonts in the Gallery of Unicode Fonts

Japanese language and dialect information at Wikipedia and Ethnologue

Writing system information at Omniglot

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travel phrases in English:

1) Where is my room?
 2) Where is the beach?
 3) Where is the bar?
 4) Don't touch me there! 		Do you have a language or dialect to add?
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