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
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
(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
Malay and
Thai not found in Standard Burmese. An example is the word for
goat
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, which is ''hseit'' () in Standard Burmese but ''bê'' () in Tavoyan, most likely from
Mon
Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to:
Places
* Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar
* Mon, India, a town in Nagaland
* Mon district, Nagaland
* Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India
* Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Canton of Grisons
* A ...
( ) or
Thai (แพะ).
In the Tavoyan dialect,
terms of endearment
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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
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{{Languages of Burma
Burmese language