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Japanese dialects?

Muz1234

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How many Japanese dialects are there in Japanese?
 
Saying that dialects can be roughly grouped into Eastern and Western hardly means there are only two dialects in all of Japan. (And is the "one-half" Kyushu dialect? Does it only count as a "half" because one scholar considered it a subset of Western Japanese?)

It's not easy to give a precise answer (I'm not even going to attempt it because I'm not a linguist), but from a practical perspective of almost anyone listening to the differences, the number is going to be much, much higher than 2 1/2. Even this diagram on the same Wikipedia page probably paints a more accurate picture.
 
I completely made up that answer and didn't even read the Wikipedia I linked. So it's not based on any logic whatsoever.
To be honest, I don't take Muz's questions very seriously.
 
mdchachi said:
To be honest, I don't take Muz's questions very seriously.
Haha. Well, I don't blame you one bit for that.

Didn't mean to be a humorless spoilsport, but I guess I just answered out of instinct for the sake of anyone else who might end up at this thread through a search or whatever and actually be interested in the answer.
 
Probably this is the most serious answer; the number differs depending on the way of classification said by a linguist.
このように見方によって方言の分類や境界線は変わってきます。ですから,何によって分類するかで「いくつ」という答えは違ってくることになります。

Japanese wikipedia shows 200 or so dialects.
 
Well, 津軽弁 Tsugaru dialect is indeed incomprehensible even for natives, as the youtuber said in the video.
 
This I gotta agree, so many discussions that are worth it seeing (most of them at least...... a few are disposable am I right)
In my estimation, he throws out topics of discussion like wildflower seeds, and never bothers to look back at what comes of them. Even his responses tend to be non sequiturs.

We've grown some worthwhile conversations out of his threads, all without his participation.
 
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