近畿方言
Osaka-ben () is often identified with Kansai dialect by most Japanese, but some of the terms considered to be characteristic of Kansai dialect are actually restricted to Osaka and its environs. Perhaps the most famous is the term "mōkarimakka?", roughly translated as "how is business?", and derived from the verb "mōkaru" (儲かる), "to be profitable, to yield a profit". This is supposedly said as a greeting from one Osakan to another, and the appropriate answer is another Osaka phrase, "maa, bochi bochi denna" "well, so-so, y'know".