Taungyo

Not to be confused with Taungoo.

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]

Taungyo

တောင်ရိုး
Taungyo girls (c. 1922)
Regions with significant populations
Pindaya, Shan State, Burma
Languages
Taungyo dialect of Burmese
Religion
Theravada Buddhism[citation needed]
Related ethnic groups
Bamar, Arakanese, Intha, Danu

Language

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]

• red - anak (အနီ)
• high - amrang (အမြင့်)
• eye - myak-sai (မျက်စေ့)
• light - lang (လင်း)