Sanuki dialect | |
Also Known As: | Kagawa Japanese |
States: | Japan |
Region: | Kagawa |
Speakers: | 1 million |
Date: | no date |
Familycolor: | Altaic |
Fam1: | Japonic |
Fam2: | Japanese |
Fam3: | Western Japanese |
Fam4: | Shikoku |
Isoexception: | dialect |
Glotto: | kaga1258 |
Glottorefname: | Kagawa-ben |
Ietf: | ja-u-sd-jp37 |
is the Japanese dialect of Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku.[1] [2] The accent is based on the Kyoto-Osaka or . There are some differences in vocabulary between the western and eastern sides of the prefecture, and the eastern and western dialects are referred to as the and the respectively.