Hakata dialect

Hakata dialect (博多弁, Hakata-ben) is a Japanese dialect spoken in Fukuoka city.[1] Hakata dialect originated in Hakata commercial district, while a related Fukuoka dialect (福岡弁, Fukuoka-ben) was spoken in the central district.[2] Hakata dialect has spread throughout the city and its suburbs. Most Japanese regard Hakata dialect as the dialect typical of Fukuoka Prefecture, so it is sometimes called Fukuoka-ben.

This article is about the dialect spoken in Hakata Ward, Fukuoka. For the wider Hichiku dialect spoken in Fukuoka Prefecture, see Chikuzen dialect.
Hakata Japanese
Native toJapan
RegionFukuoka
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologhaka1241
IETFja-u-sd-jp40
Banners in a shopping mall using Hakata dialect

Hakata dialect is being increasingly spoken in television interviews in Fukuoka, where previously standard Japanese was expected.

Grammar

The basic grammar of Hakata dialect is similar to other Hichiku dialects such as Saga dialect, Nagasaki dialect, and Kumamoto dialect. For example, Hakata dialect uses to or tto as a question, e.g., "What are you doing?", realized in standard Japanese as nani o shiteiru no?, is nan ba shiyo tto? or nan shitō to? in Hakata and other Hichiku dialects.

References
  1. Smith, Jennifer L. (1998). Silva, David (ed.). Japanese/Korean linguistics. Vol. 8. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Linguistics Association. pp. 611–627. ISBN 0-937073-56-3. OCLC 213536899.
  2. Levander, Gabriel (2020). A study of bai and tai : A sociolinguistic variation study of the sentence-final particles bai and tai used in the Fukuoka dialect.
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