Kagoshima dialect

Kagoshima Japanese
Satsugū, Satsuma
Pronunciation	[kaɡoʔma] or [kaɡomma]
Native to	Japan
Region	Kagoshima Prefecture and Miyazaki Prefecture
Language family	Japonic Japanese Kyūshū Kagoshima Japanese
Dialects	Satsuma Southern Satsuma North-Western Satsuma Ōsumi Morokata Koshikijima Tanegashima Yakushima Tokara
Writing system	Japanese, Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	sats1241
Linguasphere	45-CAA-ah[1]
Satsugū dialect area (orange)

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The Satsugū dialect (薩隅方言, Satsugū Hōgen), often referred to as the Kagoshima dialect (鹿児島弁, Kagoshima-ben, Kagomma-ben, Kago'ma-ben, Kagoima-ben), is a group of dialects or dialect continuum of the Japanese language spoken mainly within the area of the former Ōsumi and Satsuma provinces now incorporated into the southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. It may also be collectively referred to as the Satsuma dialect (薩摩方言 Satsuma Hōgen or 薩摩弁 Satsuma-ben), owing to both the prominence of the Satsuma Province and the region of the Satsuma Domain which spanned the former Japanese provinces of Satsuma, Ōsumi and the southwestern part of Hyūga. The Satsugū dialect is commonly cited for its mutual unintelligibility to even its neighboring Kyūshū variants,^[2][3][4] prompting the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to classify it as a distinct language in the Japanesic branch in its Glottolog database.^[5] It shares over three-quarters of the Standard Japanese vocabulary corpus^[6][7][8] and some areal features of Kyūshū.