{"id":139088,"date":"2021-03-04T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=139088&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2021-03-04T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T01:37:00","slug":"kumamoto-dialect-guide-introduced","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/kumamoto-dialect-guide-introduced\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumamoto Dialect Guide Introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamana City of Kumamoto Prefecture created a unique list of local dialects. Aiming to support those who move into the city from elsewhere, eighty-five <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">expressions<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are introduced in a sheet designed like a traditional \u2018ban-zuke\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sumo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-ranking. The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">yokozuna<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-ranked word is \u2018totsukemunyaa\u2019 &#8211; guess what it means! The list will be given to anyone considering relocation and is also available <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.city.tamana.lg.jp\/q\/aview\/177\/18289.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">online<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yomiuri.co.jp\/local\/kumamoto\/news\/20210209-OYTNT50067\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yomiuri<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tamanacity\/posts\/886805672094823\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamana City facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-139089\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tamana-dialect.jpg?resize=724%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tamana-dialect.jpg?resize=724%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 724w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tamana-dialect.jpg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tamana-dialect.jpg?resize=768%2C1087&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tamana-dialect.jpg?resize=1086%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1086w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/tamana-dialect.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. 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Aiming to support those who move into the city from elsewhere, eighty-five expressions are introduced in a sheet designed like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29305,"featured_media":139089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-139088","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kumamoto-prefecture","news-category-others","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/139088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}