The Tavoyan or Dawei dialect of Burmese () is spoken in

Dawei Dawei (, ; mnw, ဓဝဲါ, ; th, ทวาย, RTGS: ''Thawai'', ; formerly known as Tavoy) is a city in south-eastern Myanmar and is the capital of the Tanintharyi Region, formerly known as the Tenasserim Division, on the northern bank of ...

(Tavoy), in the coastal

Tanintharyi Region Tanintharyi Region ( my, တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; Mon: or ; ms, Tanah Sari; formerly Tenasserim Division and subsequently Tanintharyi Division, th, ตะนาวศรี, RTGS: ''Tanao Si'', ...

of southern

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(Burma). Tavoyan retains medial that has since merged into the medial in standard Burmese and can form the following consonant clusters: , , , , , , , . Examples include ( → Standard Burmese ) for "ground" and ( → Standard Burmese ) for "school". Also, voicing only with unaspirated consonants, whereas in standard Burmese, voicing can occur with both aspirated and unaspirated consonants. Also, there are many loan words from

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and

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not found in Standard Burmese. An example is the word for

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, which is ''hseit'' () in Standard Burmese but ''bê'' () in Tavoyan, most likely from Mon ( ) or

(แพะ). In the Tavoyan dialect,

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, as well as family terms, are considerably different from Standard Burmese. For instance, the terms for "father" and "mother" are () and () respectively. Moreover, the honorific (Naung) is used in lieu of (Maung) for young males.

Rhymes

The following is a list of rhyme correspondences unique to the Tavoyan dialect

References

* {{Languages of Burma Burmese language