c. Words

c. Words (Lexical Feature)

There are various lexical differences between the Standard and Kansai dialect such as;

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	Tokyo	Kansai
"stumble"	ころぶ	こける
"no good"	いけない	あかん
"strange; queer"	きみょうな	けったいな
"boring"	つまらない	しょうもない

Kansai peculiar words and expressions that apprear in this site are listed under Kansai Vocabulary List.
Please also refer to the following website which lists a variety of Kansai words.

http://www.nihongoresources.com/language/dialects/kansaiben/wordlist.html