By DAI NARUSAWA/ Staff Writer
August 21, 2024 at 07:00 JST
Yurika Maeda, right, with her mother Chizuko Katsuma in China, Kagoshima Prefecture, on June 3. The two said they continue to make a point of speaking in the Okinoerabujima dialect when they talk to each other. (Dai Narusawa)
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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