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. [1]
They speak Taungyo (တောင်ရိုးစကား Tauñyoùs̱áḵà), a Tavoyan dialect of the Burmese language. [2] Taungyo has 89% lexical similarity with standard Burmese, and is also closely related to Danu, Intha and Rakhine. [3]
A sample of Taungyo dialect vocabulary include the following: [2]
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. [1]
They speak Taungyo (တောင်ရိုးစကား Tauñyoùs̱áḵà), a Tavoyan dialect of the Burmese language. [2] Taungyo has 89% lexical similarity with standard Burmese, and is also closely related to Danu, Intha and Rakhine. [3]
A sample of Taungyo dialect vocabulary include the following: [2]