Kansai dialect
The common Kansai dialect is spoken in Keihanshin (the metropolitan areas of the cities of Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe) and its surroundings, a radius of about around the Osaka-Kyoto area (see regional differences). In this article, it is mainly discussed about the Keihanshin version of Kansai dialect in Shōwa period and Heisei period.