What is Japanese dialects?
'''Japanese dialects''' (日本の方言, ''Nihon no hōgen'') are the [[dialects]] of the [[Japanese language]]. There are four dialect groups in mainland [[Japan]]: [[Hachijō Island|Hachijō]], Eastern (including [[Tokyo]]), Western (including [[Kyoto]]) and [[Kyushu]]. The [[Ryukyuan languages]] of [[Okinawa Prefecture]] (and parts of [[Amami Islands|Kagoshima Prefecture]]) are not dialects of Japanese and a Japanese speaker wouldn't understand them.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/08/25/voices/use-lose-theres-stake-language-reviving-ryukyuan-tongues/|title=Use them or lose them: There's more at stake than language in reviving Ryukyuan tongues|last=Heinrich|first=Patrick|date=2014-08-25|website=The Japan Times|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-30}}</ref> == Related pages == * [[Japanese language]] * [[Japan]] * [[Dialect]] == References == {{reflist}} {{Japan-stub}} [[Category:Japanese language]]