Tsugaru dialect

The Tsugaru dialect (津軽弁, Tsugaru-ben) is a Japanese dialect spoken in western Aomori Prefecture.

Tsugaru dialect
Aomori dialect
Native toJapan
RegionAomori
Japonic
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
Glottologtsug1237[1]

The Tsugaru dialect is reputed to be so divergent from standard Japanese for those who are not native speakers, that even people living in the same prefecture may have trouble understanding it. In 1988, fans of the Tsugaru dialect proclaimed October 23 to be Tsugaru Dialect Day (津軽弁の日, Tsugaru-ben no hi). October 23 is the anniversary of the death of Kyōzō Takagi (ja:高木恭造), a famous poet who wrote in the Tsugaru dialect.

In Tsuruta, there is an annual summer Tsugaru-ben competition (津軽弁大会, Tsugaru-ben taikai) in which teams of foreigners create short skits or performances, usually humorous, using the dialect. In June 2009, a short segment featuring the competition was broadcast nationally on NHK.

Examples

The words are sometimes very different from those of standard Japanese.

English standard Japanese Tsugaru dialect
I watashi wa
you anata na
cute kawaii megoi
friend tomodachi keyagu
countryside inaka jago
but keredo dabatte
same onaji futozu
very totemo tage/gappa
cold tsumetai shakkoi
warm atatakai nuge
noisy urusai sashine
irritating ira-irasuru kacha-kuchane
money (o-)kane jenko
forehead hitai, (o-)deko nazugi
home ie e
cooked rice/meal gohan mama
to freeze (verb) kooraseru shimiragasu
frozen (adjective) kooru shimiru
to eat (verb) taberu, kuu (colloquial) ku
gollark: Do you want to make it constantly run the check thing on the *server* or just have the *client* constantly refresh or something?
gollark: Wow, that's somehow half the speed of my home connection run over some ancient phone line.
gollark: This is mostly two-way, i.e. two threads per core, however some enterprisey ones go to 4 or 8; this has diminishing returns because more and more of the execution resources are already used.
gollark: So when the core is waiting on memory access required for one thread, say, it can run the other one in the meantime.
gollark: Most modern CPUs support "simultaneous multithreading", where one core can run multiple threads by switching between them *very* fast (without OS intervention/context switches, I think). You might expect this to make them slower, and sometimes it does, but each core has a bunch of resources which just one running thread may underutilize.

References
  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tsugaru". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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