By DAI NARUSAWA/ Staff Writer
August 21, 2024 at 07:00 JST
A window of the Line free messaging app, seen here on Yurika Maeda’s smartphone screen on June 3, shows she uses the dialect in chats with her family members. (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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