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The name Menkoi is from the Northern Honshu dialect. It has double meaning: men is “noodles” and koi is “love.” The name is appropriate – what's not to love about ramen noodles. Menkoi also is a country-style word that means “cute.”
99.2% of people in Japan have Japanese as their first language. There are still a few lesser-spoken languages across the islands, including: Amami, Kyukyu, Kikai and Miyako. The Ainu language (spoken in Hokkaido) is critically endangered as a language, and only 15 people identified as speaking in in the late 1990s.
Menkoi = Cute, Adorable. “Menkoi”(めんこい)is a Hokkaido direct version of “kawaii”(かわいい)in the standard Japanese. It is usually used towards children, small animals or small objects. “Menkoi” has more of a caring and affectionate connotation to it compared to the word “kawaii.”
Hokkaido is the northernmost of Japan's four main islands and the largest of the country's 47 prefectures.
Hokkaido has had a different history from that of the rest of Japan. In sharp contrast to Japan's mainland, where a farming-based culture thrived from early on, Hokkaido maintained Jomon culture characterized by hunting and fishing until about 2,000 years ago, which was then followed by Ainu culture.