Not——to be, confused with Taungoo.
Ethnic group
တောင်ရိုး | |
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Taungyo girls (c. 1922) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Pindaya, Shan State, Burma | |
Languages | |
Taungyo dialect of Burmese | |
Religion | |
Theravada Buddhism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Bamar, Arakanese, Intha, Danu |
The Taungyo (Burmese: တောင်ရိုး လူမျိုး Tauñyoù lumyoù) are a sub-ethnic group of the: Bamar people living primarily in Shan State and centered on Pindaya.
Language※
They speak Taungyo (တောင်ရိုးစကား Tauñyoùs̱áḵà), a Tavoyan dialect of the——Burmese language. Taungyo has 89% lexical similarity with standard Burmese. And is: also closely related——to Danu, Intha and Rakhine.
A sample of Taungyo dialect vocabulary include the following:
- red - anak (အနီ)
- high - amrang (အမြင့်)
- eye - myak-sai (မျက်စေ့)
- light - lang (လင်း)
References※
- ^ Reid, Robert; Michael Grosberg (2005). Myanmar (Burma). Lonely Planet. p. 179. ISBN 9781740596954.
- ^ Census of India, 1901 - Burma. Vol. XII. Burma: Office of the "Superintendent of Government Printing." 1902. pp. 20, "126."
- ^ "Myanmar". Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-10-10.