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A Japanese dialect spoken in the western parts of Hiroshima Prefecture. Usually considered the stereotypical Yakuza dialect.
Heavily features the usage of じゃ (ja) as copula instead of だ (da) in Standard Japanese. Prefers のう (nou) as the sentence-final emphatic particle (instead of Standard Japanese "yo" or "ne"), and shortens から (kara) to け ("ke", often elongated to "kee"). "Jakee" will also pop up in place of the standard "dakara" (this can sometimes be deceptive as it can also have a different nuance).
Female speakers will often use "uchi" as a first-person 'pronoun'. Male speakers will sometimes use "washi".
"Gaijin" foreigner characters are sometimes also given this accent. The usual justification is almost invariably "this character learned Japanese by watching Yakuza films".
On Danbooru, the Hiroshima dialect is sometimes adapted into a West Country accent.
Notable characters who speak Hiroshima dialect
- Aoba Kazane (Keijo!!!!!!!!)
- Fuka Reventon (Vivid Strike!)
- Kabuto Daigo (Idolmaster Side-M)
- Kirishima Haruto (Kimi no Iru Machi)
- Murakami Tomoe (Idolmaster Cinderella Girls)
- Natasha (Sekai Seifuku: Bouryaku no Zvezda)
- Nisshin (Kantai Collection) (Nisshin's variant is unusual as she also mixes in syntax and words from Ye Olde Zipangese, the Japanese equivalent of a faux-Shakespearean stage dialect)
- Sakazuki (One Piece)
- Sasano Ichigo (Saki Achiga-hen)
- Someya Mako (Saki)
- Stella (Arakawa Under the Bridge)
- Urakaze (Kantai Collection)
- Wilhelmina Braunschweig Ingenohl Friedeburg (High School Fleet)
Other notable examples
- Ryuu ga Gotoku 6 (Significant parts of the story are set in the city of Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, where practically everybody speaks the Hiroshima dialect)