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I'm finding various characters using ろうじんご in various works, and I'm trying to
understand what are its characteristics; for example, _わし_ for "I", じゃ/じゃろ as
sentence-ending, のう I think like a vocative/emphasis marker (like
[here](https://animecorner.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Spice-and-wolf-new-
anime-key-visual.png)).

I'm trying to understand what are its characteristics and/or to find sources
about it, but as for now I didn't find anything besides questions about single
words (like [this](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/38378/how-
did-%E3%82%8F%E3%81%97-etc-become-stereotypical-old-people-pronouns) about
わし).

So I wanted to ask what are its characteristics (if it makes sense to cover
the topic as an answer here), or does anyone know sources explaining it?
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resources role-language
Characteristics of/Sources about roujingo
Cursory answer as far as aspects I'm familiar with

~ておる、～とる for ～てる、～ている

ぞ、わ、ぞい、わい、な、のう sentence ending particles

～じゃ as copula for だ, じゃろ・じゃろう for だろ・だろう

ワシ as first-person pronoun

～ん negative rather than ～ない

～かね、～かい、～だい interrogatives

ですな、ますな、ですぞ、ますぞ occasionally in polite speech

お主 second-person pronoun

～でない directly following a verb in dictionary form as negative command

This is not an exhaustive list and many of these are not exclusively roujingo,
but many of these will be indicative of a fictional character's advanced age
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I see that there's [a 老人語
article](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%80%81%E4%BA%BA%E8%AA%9E) on the
Japanese Wikipedia, discussing some of the
[fictional](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%80%81%E4%BA%BA%E8%AA%9E#%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AB%E3%81%8A%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B%E8%80%81%E4%BA%BA%E8%AA%9E)
and [real-
world](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%80%81%E4%BA%BA%E8%AA%9E#%E5%AE%9F%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E3%81%AB%E3%81%8A%E3%81%91%E3%82%8B%E8%80%81%E4%BA%BA%E8%AA%9E)
instances of 老人語. There is also [a list of characteristically 老人語
words](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%80%81%E4%BA%BA%E8%AA%9E#%E8%80%81%E4%BA%BA%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E4%B8%80%E8%A6%A7).
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