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Yoshi Ikuzou — "Ora Tôkyô sa Igu da" ("I'm Going to Tokyo") | Tôhoku dialect song

Record version

Tôhoku dialect is known for merging the high vowels i/u into a single distinctive intermediate sound pretty close to the Russian yery; as well as intervocalic voicing of unvoiced consonants (hence "igu" instead of "iku") as well as prenasalization of voiced consonants (which I honestly don't hear in this song); a different distribution of its palatals through a similar sound change to the one that makes us spell the "ch" sound with the letter C; and some other flourishes here and there, like the pronoun "ora" instead of "ore", some different particles likes saying "sa" instead of "ni", and some other sere vocabulary.

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ora-tokyo-sa-iguda-im-comin-down-tokyo.html

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