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I'll be visiting Yamagata City soon and would like to ask:

  * as an armchair linguist what features of the local dialect to look out for?
  * what are some common words, phrases, pronunciation differences that I could try to effect to make a nice impression on the locals?
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What are the most prominent features of Yamagata-ben?
I can't help you with first-hand knowledge, but you can start by looking
[here](http://www.jvnet.or.jp/~badz9005/tendo/hougen.htm). Some of the
comparisons (like 「んだ」 instead of 「そうです」) seems to be part of the standard
Touhoku-ben fare.

## Edit

According to the [Wikipedia
article](http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%BD%A2%E5%BC%81), there's
some good variety for the expression I quoted (「んだ」) in its formal version
(which is equivalent to 「そうです」). In Murayama, for instance, it would be
「んだず」,「んだべした」or「んだずにゃー」, while in Shinjou it would be 「んだじゅー」or 「んだにゃー」. I
can't find many explanations in that article, but it seems like quite a
variety.
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