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Friday
Oct152010

Yaranto Ikanbai!

This year the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks chose as its motto a phrase that incorporated the local Hakata dialect:

 

今年はやらんといかんばい!

Kotoshi-wa yaranto ikanbai!

This year we've got to do it!

 

Seems like there's something to kotodama, after all. Having won their first Pacific League title in some seven years, the Hawks are currently vying with the Lotte Marines for a berth in the Nippon Series. The phrase is a play on the motto Miyazaki Prefecture's governor and former TV personality Higashikokubaru used to rally citizens in action to pull the prefecture out of its financial doldrums.

 

標準語: やらないといけないよ! 

Standard Japanese: yaranai-to ikenai-yo!

博多弁: やらんといかんばい!

Hakata-ben: yaran-to ikan-bai!

宮崎弁: どげんかせんといかん!

Miyazaki-ben: dogen kasen-to ikan!

鹿児島弁

Kagoshima. My survey has come up a number of different versions:

いけんかせんといかん!

Ikenka sen-to ikan!

せんといかん

Sen-to ikan!

せんといかんがね

Sen-to ikangane!

This last one is what women in Kagoshima might say.

長崎: やらんばいかんよ!

  Nagasaki: yaran-ba ikanyo!

又は、せんばいかんよ!

Or: senba ikanyo! 

北九州市: やらんといかんちゃ!

  Kitakyûshû City: yaran-to ikancha!

大分: せんといかんたい!

   Ôita: sen-to ikantai!

大阪: やらんとあかんよ!

Ôsaka: yaran-to akande!

又は、せんなあかんで!

Or, senna akande!

京都: せんなあきまへんね!

Kyôto: senna akimahen-ne!

神戸: やらんといかんよ!

Kôbe: yaran-to ikanyo!

 

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