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Thread: Use of 俺 in Chinese dialects and its transmission to Japanese?
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[quote=12CATHYYY,425284]This has been bothering me for a long time. I've only seen 俺 (pronoun "I") used in Chinese by speakers of Northeastern Mandarin, but in Japanese it's widespread and used by males throughout most of the country on a daily basis, yet it seems that it wasn't used in pre-modern Japanese. The most common personal pronoun in pre-modern Japanese was 我. Can anyone shed some light on the history of this word's usage in Chinese and why it would have been transmitted to Japan at such a late time? (if in fact it wasn't borrowed much earlier)[/quote]
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