Tōhoku dialect
| Tōhoku Japanese | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Japan |
| Region | Tōhoku |
Japonic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | toho1244 |
Northern Tōhoku dialects (navy), Southern Tōhoku (med. blue), and the transitional Eastern Kantō dialects (azure) | |
The Tōhoku dialect (東北方言, Tōhoku hōgen), commonly called Tōhoku-ben (東北弁), is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in the Tōhoku region, the northeastern region of Honshū. Toward the northern part of Honshū, the Tōhoku dialect can differ so dramatically from standard Japanese that it is sometimes rendered with subtitles for intelligibility in the nationwide media and it has been treated as the typical rural dialect in Japanese popular culture.