Use of ン in place of の


> 家 **ン** 中でさか立ちやって障子ブッこわして...  
>  I was doing headstands in the house and wrecked the door and...

Presumably ン is a contraction of の. Why is it written in katakana? I guess
it's adding some kind of emphasis; maybe " **in** the house" or "in the
**house** "? Also, how would this sound in speech?




This is a common contraction in Western Japanese dialects. It's not emphasis.
You could speak this in two ways:

> うちん中で・・・
>
> いえん中で・・・

This isn't typically written either (dialects are somewhat neglected in
literature), so I would say the choice of ン over ん was on a whim.

One common (the only?) place I've heard this used in Standard Japanese is
before [家]{ち}, in sentences like:

> [俺]{おれ}ん[家]{ち}来いよ

or after someone's name:

> [大助]{だいすけ}ん家で・・・

Note that in general, the easiest place to do this contraction is before other
「な」 row words, like 中 above.




This is a common contraction in Western Japanese dialects. It's not emphasis.
You could speak this in two ways:

> うちん中で・・・
>
> いえん中で・・・

This isn't typically written either (dialects are somewhat neglected in
literature), so I would say the choice of ン over ん was on a whim.

One common (the only?) place I've heard this used in Standard Japanese is
before [家]{ち}, in sentences like:

> [俺]{おれ}ん[家]{ち}来いよ

or after someone's name:

> [大助]{だいすけ}ん家で・・・

Note that in general, the easiest place to do this contraction is before other
「な」 row words, like 中 above.

