User:Colincbn/Mikawa dialect

Mikawa-ben (三河弁) is the dialect of Japanese spoken in the Mikawa Province (三河国 mikawa-no kuni), one of the old provinces that were combined to form Aichi prefecture (愛知県, Aichi-ken) during abolision of the Han system. Mikawa-ben is mainly spoken in eastern Aichi, while Nagoya-ben and Owari-ben are spoken in the western half. Mikawa-ben is very similar to standard Japanese due to the large base of Mikawa samurai who founded Edo, which later became known as Tokyo. The Tokyo dialect is considered to be standard Japanese by the Japanese government, and this large influx of Mikawa dialect speakers early in its history has lead to there being very few differences between the two.

The four most famous differences between Mikawa dialect and standard Japanese are:


 * The negative cojugation nai (ない) Becomes n (ん), as in: wakaran (分からん)I don't know/understand
 * The sentence final particle darō (だろう),Isint it?. Becomes dara (だら), as in: 雨が降っているだら？ It's raining isint it?
 * rin (りん)
 * monde (もんで)

other, less-famous, examplese include:

etc...
 * mai (まい)
 * oru (おる)