Akita dialect

Akita dialect
Akita dialect
秋田弁
	Akita dialect area.
Native to	Japan
Region	Akita
Language family	Japonic Japanese Eastern Japanese Tōhoku Northern Akita dialect; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Northern; Central; Southern;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	akit1240
IETF	ja-u-sd-jp05

The Akita dialect (秋田弁, Akita-ben) is a Japanese dialect spoken in Akita Prefecture.^[1]

Classification

The dialect is a member of the Kita-Ōu dialect within the Tōhoku dialect of Eastern Japanese. It shares this grouping with dialects spoken in Aomori, north-central Iwate, coastal Yamagata and the Agakita region in Niigata Prefecture.