By DAI NARUSAWA/ Staff Writer
August 21, 2024 at 07:00 JST
Members of an “editorial committee” creating a dictionary of the Tamina dialect are seen at one of their semimonthly meetings in China, Kagoshima Prefecture. The group has nine active members in their 70s or older. (Provided by Tsuruko Tanabe)
CHINA, Kagoshima Prefecture--The dominance of standard Japanese in colloquial speech across the archipelago has obvious advantages. But it comes at the risk of killing off rare dialects spoken on remote islands. [Read More]
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