The Hōnichi dialect (豊日方言, ''Hōnichi hōgen'') is a group of the
Japanese dialects
The dialects of the Japanese language fall into two primary clades, Eastern (including Tokyo) and Western (including Kyoto), with the dialects of Kyushu and Hachijō Island often distinguished as additional branches, the latter perhaps the most ...
spoken in eastern
Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...
. It is closer in some ways to
Western Japanese
The dialects of the Japanese language fall into two primary clades, Eastern (including Tokyo) and Western (including Kyoto), with the dialects of Kyushu and Hachijō Island often distinguished as additional branches, the latter perhaps the most di ...
(
Chūgoku dialect
The is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in most of the Chūgoku region and in the northwestern Kansai region. It may be separated into two groups according to the form of the copula.
* copula ''ja'' group (San'yō region)
** Aki also kno ...
) that it is to other
Kyushu dialects. The name ''Hōnichi'' (豊日) is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from ''
Buzen'' (豊前), ''
Bungo'' (豊後) and ''
Hyūga'' (日向), names of old provinces there.
The Hōnichi dialect is:
* Buzen dialect (eastern
Fukuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders Saga Prefecture to the southwest, K ...
and northwestern
Ōita Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Ōita Prefecture has a population of 1,136,245 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,340 km2 (2,448 sq mi). Ōita Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northwest, Kum ...
, formerly known as
Buzen Province
was an old province of Japan in northern Kyūshū in the area of Fukuoka Prefecture and Ōita Prefecture. It was sometimes called , with Bungo Province. Buzen bordered on Bungo and Chikuzen Provinces.
History
The ruins of the ancient cap ...
)
** Kitakyūshū dialect (
Kitakyūshū
is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. As of June 1, 2019, Kitakyushu has an estimated population of 940,978, making it the second-largest city in both Fukuoka Prefecture and the island of Kyushu after the city of Fukuoka. It is one o ...
)
** Nakatsu dialect (centered
Nakatsu)
*
Ōita dialect
Ōita dialect, or , is a dialect of Japanese spoken in Ōita Prefecture in Kyushu, Japan. Even within the prefecture, regional differences are still prevalent; for example, vocabulary within the Hita and Nakatsu regions tends to differ from th ...
(most of Ōita Prefecture)
* Miyazaki dialect (most of
Miyazaki Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Miyazaki Prefecture has a population of 1,073,054 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 7,735 km2 (2,986 sq mi). Miyazaki Prefecture borders Ōita Prefecture to the north, Ku ...
)
Honichi dialect does not share some features peculiar to other Kyushu dialects such as ''ka''-adjective and ''batten'' particle. Buzen-Oita dialects do not use ''to'' particle. An emphasizing particle ''cha'' is used in Honichi dialect and Yamaguchi dialect.
In the pitch accent, Miyazaki dialect and Buzen-Oita dialects are very different. Buzen-Oita dialects use Tokyo-type accent as well as Chugoku dialect, but Miyazaki dialect is noted for its monotone accent as well as some dialects classified the Hichiku dialect. Another striking difference between Miyazaki and Buzen-Oita dialects is the particle meaning "because": while Miyazaki dialect uses ''kara'' or ''kai'', Buzen-Oita dialects use ''ken'' or ''kee'' or ''kii'' as well as Chugoku, Shikoku and Hichiku dialects.
References
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Japanese dialects