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    The 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....
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    Shizuoka (Enshū dialect) has miyo as its single Western Japanese feature. The Western Japanese Kansai dialect was the prestige dialect when Kyoto was the...
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    Niigata dialect is classified into Tōkai-Tōsan dialect and Tōhoku dialect and southern Fukui dialect is classified into Kansai dialect. Kaga dialect (southern...
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    and the relative domination of their employer, Yoshimoto Kogyo, the Kansai dialect (in which both performers usually speak) has come to be associated with...
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    yaki, meaning "grilled". It is an example of konamono (konamon in the Kansai dialect), or flour-based Japanese cuisine. It is also called by an abbreviated...
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    Chūgoku dialect (中国方言, Chūgoku hōgen) is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in most of the Chūgoku region and in the northwestern Kansai region....
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    called Kansai-ben, have their own variations of pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Kansai-ben is the group of dialects spoken in the Kansai area,...
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    a side dish with rice. It is an example of konamono (konamon in the Kansai dialect), or flour-based Japanese cuisine. Takoyaki was first popularized in...
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    The Kishū dialect (Japanese: 紀州弁 kishū ben) is a Kansai dialect of Japanese spoken in the former province of Kino, in what is now Wakayama Prefecture...
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    The Okuyoshino dialect (Japanese: 奥吉野方言 okuyoshino hogen) is a Kansai dialect of Japanese spoken in several villages in the Okuyoshino region of southern...
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    appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region (modern Tokyo) in the Early Modern...
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  • CArd and is also a play on the phrase "Iko ka" (行こか), an informal, Kansai dialect invitation meaning "Shall we go?" The mascot for ICOCA is a blue platypus...
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    as in the original Greek. The name horumon is also similar to the Kansai dialect term hōrumon (放る物), which means "discarded goods". Horumonyaki has a...
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  • royal election to become the 42nd King of Lugunica, who speaks in "Kansai" dialect. She is the 22-year-old head of the famous Hoshin Trading Company and...
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  • grown up in Osaka, she has also voiced characters who speak in the Kansai dialect, typically in supporting roles. Best Student Council – Nanaho Kinjo...
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  • dialect shows intermediate characteristics between eastern Japanese (including standard Tokyo dialect) and western Japanese (including Kansai dialect)...
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    of the influence of the Kansai dialect, the modern Mino dialect generally uses ya (や) and is compared to the Nagoya dialect which uses da (だ) for copulas...
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    in the Kansai dialect group, it shares much of its vocabulary with Chūgoku group. It can be further subdivided into the Western Banshū dialect (西播方言,...
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  • in Maya religion (identified with the god A') Akan (あかん), a Japanese Kansai dialect phrase meaning "No way" Acan (disambiguation) Akkan This disambiguation...
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    Kyoto-Osaka-type accent or its variations, and are similar to Kansai dialect, but Chūgoku dialect uses a Tokyo-type accent. The differences between zi and...
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    Akō, people speak a type of the Kansai dialect whose intonation is however of the Tokyo type. The superset of the dialect spoken in Akō, called Banshū-ben...
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    (計算 calculation) in the Tosa dialect is keisan (ケイサン), as opposed to keesan (ケーサン) in standard Japanese and Kansai dialects. Among older speakers, a nasalised...
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    associated with the Osaka region, and manzai comedians often speak in the Kansai dialect during their acts. In 1933, Yoshimoto Kogyo, a large entertainment conglomerate...
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  • influenced by the Kyūshū dialect, while the central and eastern districts have accents similar to Kansai dialect. The Iyo dialect has numerous characteristics...
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  • common honorifics include: San (さん), sometimes pronounced han (はん) in Kansai dialect, is the most commonplace honorific and is a title of respect typically...
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  • oneself and speaking in the first person, vary between gender, formality, dialect and region where Japanese is spoken. According to some Western grammarians...
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    Kyoto (category Kansai region)
    observe the action. The dialect spoken in Kyoto is known as Kyō-kotoba or Kyōto-ben, a constituent dialect of the Kansai dialect. Until the late Edo period...
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  • country code AHO Aho, a phrase in the Kansai dialect of Japanese, meaning "idiot", see Baka (Japanese word)#Dialectal Aboriginal Housing Office, a statutory...
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  • Kinki may refer to: Kansai region, Japan; also called the Kinki region Kansai dialect, also called Kinki dialect Kinki Expressway, Osaka, Japan Kindai...
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    or motsu — offal. Horumon means "discarded items" and comes from the Kansai dialect. Rebā — beef liver. From the German word "Leber". Tetchan — intestine...
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