Kagoshima (also known as Satsuma) is a dialect group of (Kyushu) Japanese which is not intelligible to mainstream Japanese [jpn] ( William L. Schwartz 1915: 171 , Hattori, Shirô 1973: 375 , Kindaichi, Haruhiko 1978: 55 ) and thus merits its own entry. See also: Japanese [jpn].