Iyo dialect

The Iyo dialect (伊予弁 Iyo-ben) of Japanese is spoken by people from Ehime Prefecture in Japan. The name is a remnant of the Ehime area's historical name, Iyo Province.

Accents vary somewhat by geography within the prefecture. The southern area is particularly influenced by the Kyūshū dialect, while the central and eastern districts have accents similar to Kansai dialect.

Characteristics

The Iyo dialect is an old one with many rustic characteristics and modifications of standard Japanese grammar.

  • ya (や) replaces da (だ) as the casual copula
  • ken (けん) replaces kara (から) as in "because"
  • yaken (やけん) is used instead of dakara (だから)
  • oru (おる) replaces iru (いる) as the verb "to be" for animate objects
  • -toru (～とる) is a contraction of -te oru
  • V-stem + -yoru (～よる) is a slurring of oru
  • nani shitoru no? (何しとるの？) or
  • nani shiyoru no? (何しよるの？)
  • n (ん) as a contraction of sentence-final no (の)
  • ya and wai (わい) can be emphatic sentence-final particles, like yo (よ)
  • Negative potential forms ("can't X") are sometimes expressed as yō + V-neg. (yō is an onbin of 良く yoku, so literally, "not well Xed")
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