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1. Hakata dialect
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2. Hakata dialectHakata dialect (博多弁 hakata-ben) is a dialect spoken in Hakata of Fukuoka. Throughout Japan, Hakata-ben is famous, amongst many other idiosyncrasies, for its use of to or tto as a question, e.g. , "What are you doing?", realized in Standard Japanese as nani o shiteiru no?, is nan ba shiyo tto? or nan shitō tō? in Hakata. Hakata-ben is also being used more often in Fukuoka in television interviews, where previously standard Japanese was expected.
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