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Tokyo dialect : ウィキペディア英語版 | Tokyo dialect
refers to the Japanese dialect spoken in modern Tokyo. The dialect in modern Tokyo is often considered to be standard Japanese, though it differs from standard Japanese in a number of areas and social classes. == Overview ==
Traditional dialects in downtown Tokyo are generally classified in two groups, and . The Yamanote dialect is characteristic of the old upper-class from the Yamanote area. Standard Japanese was based on the Yamanote dialect during the Meiji period. The Shitamachi dialect is a more working-class dialect, and it preserves features of Edo Chōnin (Edokko) speech (see Early Modern Japanese), so also called . Tokyo style rakugo is typically played in the Shitamachi dialect. One can compare Yamanote dialect and Shitamachi dialect to the British RP and Cockney in English. The origin of the Tokyo dialect dates back to Tokugawa Ieyasu's establishment of Edo. This, in part, caused large groups of people, speaking a range of dialects, to migrate across the country. The Kyoto dialect was the de facto standard of the time and strongly influenced the Edo dialect in the early Edo period; the dialect grew inside the largest city in Japan and became the new de facto standard Japanese in the late Edo period. Because of its unique history, especially in relation to the Kyoto dialect, Tokyo is a language island in the Kantō region. For example, traditional Kanto dialects have been characterized by the use of volitional and presumptive suffix -''be'', which is rarely used in Tokyo.
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