--- In [email protected], "hiroloro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> kon-nichiwa,
>
> Kansai-ben ga ima hihon de tokuni ninki ga arutoiu koto wa arimasen.
> tada manzainado no eikyou de izen yorimo miminisurukotoga
> ookunarimashita.Akumademo hougen desukara hyoujungo yori ninki ga
> arutoiukoto wa naidesune.
>
> As far as I know,there are not many people in Tokyo who like to speak
> Kansai-ben.Absolutely Kansai-ben is just a dialect.I can't say which
> is more popular.
>
> Hiro>
Tokidoki Kansai-ben wa mimi ni hidoi hôgen da sô desu. Watashi wa Kyôto-
ben wa utsukushikute reigi-tadashi-sô da to omoimasu. Demo, Kyôto dake
ni tsukawareru hôgen desu. TEREBI no okage de, Oosaka-ben ga wakaru
nihonjin wa takusan iru no desu. Sore de atte mo, gakkô no kokugo jugyô
no okage de hyôjun-go wa zettai de subete no nihonjin no wakaru kotoba
desu.
Hyôjun-go wa hyôjun no kotoba de aru no de, subete no nihonjin wa kono
hôgen wo tsukaimasu. Sô de atte okanai nara, Hokkaidô-jin wa Hiroshima-
jin wo wakaru koto ga dekimasen. Sore de, benri no tame ni hyôjun-go wa
mottomo ninki de aru kotoba desu.
Jitsu wa watashi wa Kagoshima-ben ga naraitai. Demo, imadoki taihen
mezurashii hôgen da sô desu.
*********
Oosaka-ben is understood by many Japanese, thanks to TV comedians, of
whom most were born in Oosaka. However, the standard language is much
more prevalent thanks to the public school system in Japan. (The use of
the Kantô dialects as the lingus franca of the Tokugawa Shôgunate was
only the start, given that up until then most people spoke one form of
Kansai dialect or another.) This is good for the sake of convenience;
if the standard language did not exist, the unification of Japan's
various regions would have been more difficult. Also, only one part of
Japan would have been open to foreigners, while the others would not be
as open due the language differences.
- Arian I.
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