Japanese Dialects

This page will eventually hold the sound files for 30 Japanese dialects. The passage recorded is the dialect version of 'The North Wind and the Sun' (one of Aesop's Fables), adapted from the booklet The Principles of the International Phonetic Association (London, 1949, repr. 1982).

• Yamagata pref.
  • Yamagata City dialect (MP3)
• Iwate pref.
  • Shizukuishi dialect (MP3)
• Ibaraki pref.
  • Central dialect (Uchihara-cho) (MP3)
• Kagoshima pref.
  • Asama dialect (MP3)
• Okinawa pref.
  • Shuri dialect (MP3)
  • Yonaguni dialect (MP3)
  • Hatoma dialect (MP3)
  • Kudaka dialect (MP3)
  • Takazato dialect (MP3)
  • Taketomi dialect (MP3)
• Hachijō-jima
  • Mitsune (MP3)