![]() ![]() Being able to distinguish between two types of long /oː/ from the historical /au/ and /ou/ diphthongs (one is /ɔ:/, the other /o:/).On top of these features, individual dialects are also prone to preserving certain traits of old Japanese that are no longer present in the Standard language, for example: ![]() To an English speaker, these vowel and consonant mutations make it sound somewhat like Tohoku-ben speakers are talking through a bad cold. It's also why the name of Ibaraki Prefecture (technically part of Kanto, but on the border with Tohoku) is frequently misspelled as "Ibara gi". For example, suki datta (I liked it) becomes sugi dadda.
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