00:00This is a comment about the evolution of dialects in Japan.
00:05I agree with you, my grandmother and those her age from Saga Prefecture still maintain
00:10a pretty strong dialect.
00:11He was responding to my comment in which I said that even one of the
00:15two generations ago, people spoke much stronger dialect, and people these days, young
00:20people these days speak something much more like standard Japanese, with some elements
00:24of...
00:25the traditional dialect spoken in their area.
00:28My wife is from Kansai and...
00:30and she speaks with mostly standard Japanese with some elements of...
00:35Kansai dialect, but her parents speak much heavier Kansai dialect, like one thing...
00:40I notice her mother's saying, is negative adjectives without ku.
00:45So, whereas in standard Japanese, you'd say like, takaku nai, to mean, not high, or...
00:50not expensive, but she might say takanai, or oki...
00:55oki kunai, meaning not large.
00:57She might say, oki nai, without the ku in the...
01:00middle, which I've never heard any young person say, anyone say under 40 years...
01:05old, or even under 50 years old.
01:07I don't think I hear anybody say that.
01:09Unless...
01:10they just don't say it to me, because people of younger generations are better at adapting...
01:15their speech to sound more standard when necessary, and when speaking to a foreigner...
01:20they might adapt their speech to sound more standard, to make it sound more standard.
01:25just based on the dynamics of that situation.
01:29Because...
01:30younger people are better at that.
01:31I think they've actually internalized the standard language.
01:35as a bigger part of their native speech.
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