The text "Medical Tsugaru Words" that introduces the Tsugaru dialect of the Faculty of Medicine at Hirosaki University (Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki City) is currently a hot topic on the Internet.

The opportunity was posted by Twitter, an active medical student. I sent out on September 2 with a photo of the same text, "It came out! Hirosaki University's specialty!" I retweet.

The text is a reference material used in a class called "Community Medicine Course". Since it is not a textbook for learning the Tsugaru dialect, it is not used in the class, but as a reference when communicating with local patients in future training and practical training of students, part-time lecturer Keiichi Ishitoya Created in 1997. After being edited, it now contains about 400 words. Translated Tsugaru dialect over all 26 pages.

One word such as "ke" has three meanings, and I will introduce the Tsugaru dialect, which has a completely different meaning with just a few phrases such as "Agde" (heel) and "Ageta" (upper jaw). Shigeyuki Nakaji, Dean of the School of Medicine, said, "Clinical communication is important as well as language understanding." "In some cases, even if I didn't have that intention, I would say rude things to patients," he said.

It is said that half of the university's medical school is from outside the prefecture, and a student who actually took the lecture said, "I have symptoms that can only be conveyed by the Tsugaru dialect." "Aomori has Tsugaru dialect and Shimokita dialect , There is the Nanbu dialect, and the same words have different meanings and are used in different ways. It will be a study. "

Mr. Nakaji reveals, "Actually, the materials that Mr. Ishitoya makes at his own expense."