Japanese/Dialects/Toyama

Some notable aspects of Toyama dialect:

1. Pauses in sentences are often accompanied by a pitch vibration.
   • あのねぇ ano nee
   • それで sore de
   • そこへ行って soko e itte

     In each of these examples, the pitch goes up-down-up-down, or even up-down-up-down-up-down. Pitch intervals can be as much as as 5-8 whole steps.

2. の no is replaced by が ga (except in the possessive).
   • そうなの？ sou na no? becomes そうなが？ sou na ga?
   • できないので dekinai no de becomes できないがで dekinai ga de
3. か ka as a question marker is replaced by っけ kke
   • 分かるか wakaru ka becomes 分かるっけ wakaru kke
4. いる iru becomes おる oru or おん
   • ここにいる koko ni iru becomes ここにおる koko ni oru or ここにおん koko ni on
5. てる -te ru (contraction of ている -te iru) becomes とる -toru or とん -ton
   • 分かってる wakatteru becomes 分かっとる wakattoru or 分かっとん wakatton
6. ない -nai becomes -ん
   • できない dekinai becomes できん dekin
   • 分からない wakaranai becomes 分からん wakaran
   • だれもいない dare mo inai becomes だれもおらん dare mo oran

Putting everything together, you can get the very comical phrase:

• トンガ行っとんが知っとんが? Tonga itton ga shitton ga?

  meaning トンガに行っているのを知っているの Tonga itte iru no o shitte iru no? or "Did you know he went to Tonga?"