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This is a shot from a manga called 飴色{あめいろ}パラドックス by 夏目{なつめ}イサク. I was
wondering what dialect the police-man was speaking in?

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dLMZ1.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dLMZ1.png)

I know he's in 田舎{いなか}/東北{とうほく} as that's all the mangaka specifies, but I was
wondering if it was a specific dialect. Thanks!
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dialects
What dialect is this?
A very pure and specific dialect is rarely used in manga. Why not? Because the
vast majority of readers would not understand it then. (The Tokyo dialect
might be the only exception.)

The cop's speech looks Touhoku-ish for sure, but if you looked closely, except
for the use of 「わらす」 (= わらし), almost all of the dialectal elements used are
the voicing of the consonants that are pronounced unvoiced in "standard"
Japanese. I am referring to:

「さいぎん」,「あだり」,「しでた」,「おだぐ」, etc.

I have lived in Nagoya and Tokyo all of my life. If I can understand the cop's
lines if I just mentally got rid of all the **゛** 's (the dots), then I know
that that is not a full-on dialect.
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