Sanuki Dialect

Sanuki Dialect (讃岐弁 Sanuki-ben^?) is a dialect of Japanese used in Kagawa Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. The accent is based on the Kyoto-Osaka or Keihan accent (京阪式アクセント^?). There are some differences in vocabulary between the western and eastern sides of the prefecture, and the eastern and western dialects are referred to as the Tōsan Dialect (東讃弁 Tōsan-ben^?) and the Seisan Dialect (西讃弁 Seisan-ben^?) respectively.
  
Expressions

• Akan (あかん)　Useless/No good/Hopeless(だめだ)
  • Ikan（いかん）is sometimes used by young people in Seisan(West) dialect.
• Azuru (あずる)　Verb To trouble/to pain/ to worry(苦労する)

Shikoku (四国^?, "four provinces") is the smallest (225 km or 139.8 mi long and between 50 and 150 km or 31.1 and 93.2 mi wide) and least populous (4,141,955 as of 2005) of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshū and east of the island of Kyūshū.