Fukuoka dialect
The dialect of Fukuoka and the Hakata district on northern Kyushu. Recognisable for sentence-final particles like "to" and "tai".
- Spoken in
- Approximate centre
- 33.59°, 130.40°
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Hakata-ben vs Hokkaido-ben
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The variety spoken across Hokkaido. A relatively young dialect shaped by 19th-century settlement, mostly close to Standard Japanese but with Tōhoku and coastal influences.
- Spoken in
- Approximate centre
- 43.07°, 141.35°
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DialectHakata-benThe dialect of Fukuoka and the Hakata district on northern Kyushu. Recognisable for sentence-final particles like "to" and "tai".DialectHokkaido-benThe variety spoken across Hokkaido. A relatively young dialect shaped by 19th-century settlement, mostly close to Standard Japanese but with Tōhoku and coastal influences.CompareHakata-ben vs Hiroshima-benAtlasExplore the atlasRead the full picture of Japanese and the dialects within it.