Kesen dialect

Kesen
Kesen
kesengo / ケセン語
	Kesen dialect area.
Native to	Japan
Region	Iwate Prefecture: Ōfunato, Rikuzentakata, and Sumita.
Language family	Japonic Japanese Eastern Japanese Tōhoku Southern Southern Iwate dialect Kesen; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	kese1237
IETF	ja-u-sd-jp03

Kesen dialect (気仙方言, Kesen hōgen) or Kesen (ケセン語, Kesengo, Kesengo) is a Japanese dialect spoken in Kesen County, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.

Kesen has been described by Harutsugu Yamaura (山浦玄嗣, Yamaura Harutsugu). Yamaura considers Kesen an independent language, related to both Japanese and Ainu languages, but this is not accepted by other linguists.

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