Taungyo
Ethnic group
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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.[2]
တောင်ရိုး | |
|---|---|
Taungyo girls (c. 1922) | |
| Total population | |
| c. 560,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Pindaya, Shan State, Burma | |
| Languages | |
| Taungyo dialect of Burmese | |
| Religion | |
| Theravada Buddhism[1] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Bamar, Arakanese, Intha, Danu |
Language
They speak Taungyo (တောင်ရိုးစကား Tauñyoùs̱áḵà), a Tavoyan dialect of the Burmese language.[3] Taungyo has 89% lexical similarity with standard Burmese, and is also closely related to Danu, Intha and Rakhine.[4]
A sample of Taungyo dialect vocabulary include the following:[3]
- red - anak (အနီ)
- high - amrang (အမြင့်)
- eye - myak-sai (မျက်စေ့)
- light - lang (လင်း)