The Hichiku dialect (肥筑方言 Hichiku hōgen) is a group of the Japanese dialects spoken in the western Kyushu. The name Hichiku (肥筑) is constructed by extracting a representative kanji from Hizen (肥前), Higo (肥後), Chikuzen (筑前) and Chikugo (筑後), names of old provinces in there. The Hichiku dialect is: \n* Hakata dialect (western Fukuoka Prefecture, formerly known as Chikuzen Province, especially Hakata district in Fukuoka) \n* Chikugo dialect (southern Fukuoka Prefecture, formerly known as Chikugo Province) \n* Ōmuta dialect (Ōmuta) \n* Yanagawa dialect (Yanagawa) \n* Chikuhō dialect (central Fukuoka Prefecture such as Iizuka) \n* Saga dialect (Saga Prefecture) \n* Karatsu dialect (northern Saga Prefecture centerd Karatsu) \n* Tashiro dialect (easternmost Saga Prefecture centered Tashiro) \n* Nagasaki dialect (Nagasaki Prefecture) \n* Sasebo dialect (northern Nagasaki Prefecture centered Sasebo) \n* Hirado dialect (Hirado Island, west of Nagasaki Prefecture) \n* Kumamoto dialect (Kumamoto Prefecture) \n* Hita dialect (Hita, southwestern Oita Prefecture) \n* Iki dialect (Iki Island of Nagasaki Prefecture) \n* Tsushima dialect (Tsushima Island of Nagasaki Prefecture) \n* Gotō dialect (Gotō Islands of Nagasaki Prefecture)

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