Tosa dialect

Tosa dialect
Tosa dialect
土佐弁
	Tosa dialect area.
Native to	Japan
Region	Kōchi, Shikoku
Language family	Japonic Japanese Western Japanese Shikoku Tosa dialect; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	jpn-koc

The Tosa dialect (Japanese: 土佐弁 tosa-ben) is a Japanese Shikoku dialect spoken in central and eastern Kochi Prefecture (former Tosa Province), including Kochi City. The dialect of the Western region of Kochi Prefecture is called the Hata dialect (Japanese: 幡多弁 hata-ben) and is drastically different from the Central and Eastern dialect.

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