あぎじゃびよー and other Okinawa-ben

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Bit of hasty Googling turned up these pages, which seem a pretty good place to start.

For Okinawan:
http://yado-umino.sakura.ne.jp/page168.html
https://www.gyokusendo.co.jp/dialect/

For Osakan:
大阪弁 - Wikipedia
Kansai-ben: 2. Kansai Grammar Index (is Kansai-ben in general, but it works fairly well for Osaka-ben)

(I did a translation of a drama series in which half the characters spoke in Hiroshima-ben, and the other half in Osaka-ben, and that was certainly entertaining. ほうじゃけ~, すまへん and so forth.)

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