Hichiku Japanese | |
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Native to | Japan |
Region | western Kyūshū |
Japonic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | hich1237 |
Hichiku dialect area (orange)
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The Hichiku dialect (肥筑方言 Hichiku hōgen) is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in the western Kyushu. The name Hichiku (肥筑) is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Hizen (肥前), Higo (肥後), Chikuzen (筑前) and Chikugo (筑後), names of old provinces in there.
The Hichiku dialect is: