Chikuzen dialect

Chikuzen dialect
筑前方言
Chikuzen dialect area (orange).
Native to	Japan
Region	Western Fukuoka Prefecture, Kyushu
Language family	Japonic Japanese Kyushu Hichiku Chikuzen dialect
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

The Chikuzen dialect (Japanese: 筑前方言 chikuzen hogen) is a Japanese dialect spoken in western Fukuoka Prefecture in an area corresponding to the former Chikuzen Province. It is classified as a Hichiku dialect of the wider Kyushu dialect of Japanese, although the eastern part of the accepted dialect area has more similarities with the Buzen dialect, and the Asakura District in the south bears a stronger resemblance to the Chikugo dialect. The Chikuzen dialect is considered the wider dialect to which the Hakata dialect, the Fukuoka dialect and the Munakata dialect belong.