Many people (including myself, before doing this assignment) thinks that Japanese people only speaks Japanese. Period. But when I research on further into the subject, I realized that Japanese people not only speak, well, Japanese. With a total number of 47 prefectures in Japan, they ought to have their on interpretation of the language. Therefore, dialects do exist in the Japanese language.
I can't be talking about all the different dialects in detail with just the length of one simple post, because there is not only 47 dialects, but some cities will have their own dialects too, resulting in a prefecture maybe having more than one or two dialects.
Other than dialects, the Ainu people whom I have mentioned in my post about indigenous people of Japan holds their own language, the Ainu language, too.
Similar to the Chinese, where Mandarin is the common language now, the Tokyo dialect-Japanese (general Japanese language) is the most common language spoken in Japan now. Other than to their own family members, the Japanese do not usually speak dialects. Japanese language schools are also teaching the general Japanese now, therefore, language teachers born and raised in Tokyo are more desirable to these schools.
In the Kansai dialect, instead of "Hontoni?", "Really?" is "Honmani?".
Ainu Language Songs
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