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is spoken in the central and eastern regions of modern-day Kōchi Prefecture in Japan. This area was once known as the Tosa area and the name of the dialect still reflects this older name. The dialect itself developed from the linguistic influence of immigrants to the Tosa area from other parts of Japan and is largely a combination of the Kansai dialect and Chugoku dialects. In particular the accent system used is that of old Kansai-ben. One of the distinctions between Tosa dialect and other Western Japanese dialects is the use of the verb suffixes ''-yuu'' and ''-chuu'' to show aspect. Grammatically, ''-yuu'' encapsulates the continuative and progressive aspects while ''-chuu'' separately encapsulates a repeated action or continuing state. In Standard Japanese both are represented by ''-te-iru''. The respective past tense forms are ''-yotta'' and ''-chotta'', while the negative forms are ''-yasen'' and ''-chasen''. Other distinctive features of Tosa dialect include its clause-ending particles, such as ''kendo'' for disjunction, ''ga'' as a question marker and ''ki'' to denote reason. Many features of Tosa dialect are shared with neighbouring Hata dialect, spoken in the western part of Kōchi Prefecture. == See also == * Yotsugana 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tosa dialect」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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