Of all Japan's dialects, the Kansai dialect, or Kansai-ben, is most well-known and likely the one you'll hear of most often. Spoken often within comedy TV shows, it is an interesting, casual and ...

Japanese is a language only spoken widely in Japan, however there are approximately 47 dialects spoken within the language, which makes for some interesting variations in vocabulary, grammar, and ...

This paper shows that, contrary to preceding studies, a dialect spoken in a western region of Japan (Kansai dialect) allows not only nominative Case, as is widely known in literature, but also ...