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Originally Posted by chryuop
For sure this thing of the dialects in Japan is very interesting. I can understand the dialects in my country. Italy for centuries had been conquered in pieces. One part from France, one part from Austria, Hispanic, Arabic and so on. That makes it clear why we have so many dialects which are actually very different languages with completely different words (some of them with actually different grammar). But I can't see the same reason for this happening in Japan. Having Japanese people the same root, I can see a slight difference in dialects, but it is hard to understand (for someone outside of Japan) the reason of so many dialects.
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Yeah, I think that the development of dialects is very interesting. Also I think it's cool how they developed within Japan... like, how the language is fundamentally the same even though as was said, the people were so isolated from each other, as well as from the rest of the world.