As studied previously, the dialectal expression [teru] used in the words such as [kiteru], [saiteru], meaning the state of either ‘finished’ or ‘continuing’ is generally used in East Japan, and [toru] used in such words as [kitoru], [saitoru], meaning the state of ‘finished'’ and [
joru
] in such words as [kijoru], [sakijoru], meaning ‘continuing’ state are are spoken in West Japan, where they use two expressions each in its proper way.
In this paper, the writer reports on the distribution of [t∫oru] used in such words as [kit∫oru], [sait∫oru], another expression meaning the state of ‘finished’, in Chugoku and Shikoku, West Japan.
The expression [t∫oru] is spoken in Central Sanin, Yamaguchi prefecture, Central Geinan and South Shikoku, that is to say, in the fringes of Chugoku and Shikoku except Central Geinan. Each line of demarcation between [t∫oru] and [toru] roughly runs along the watersheds, but circumstantially that has been affected by traffic routes and by marital relations since old times. The use of the expression [t∫oru] in those [t∫oru] areas generally tends to fall off slowly, and it is mingling more or less with [toru] in each [t∫oru] area. In Fig. I, I can say that [toru] has generally extended westward from east, for the reason that [t∫oru] areas persist in the fringes of west, north and south, excepting east. Besides, in Fig. II, I see that [toru] has extended dualistically in ‘Chugoku Shikoku’ and ‘Kyushu’, for the reason that [toru] areas in ‘Chugoku Shikoku’ are separated from [toru] areas in ‘Kyushu’.
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