上じょう代だい東とう国ごく方ほう言げん

noun

eastern Old Japanese dialect

Linguistics term referring to the dialect of Old Japanese spoken in the eastern provinces (Azuma) during the Nara period, known from poems in the Man'yōshū.

• 上じょう代だい東とう国ごく方ほう言げんは、万まん葉よう集しゅうの東あずま歌うたなどに見みられる。

  The eastern Old Japanese dialect is found in poems such as the Azuma-uta in the Man'yōshū.