The Yaw dialect of
Burmese is spoken by 20,000 people near the
Chin Hills
The Chin Hills are a range of mountains in Chin State, northwestern Burma (Myanmar), that extends northward into India's Manipur state.
Geography
The highest peak in the Chin Hills is Khonu Msung, or Mount Victoria, in southern Chin State, whic ...
in
Magway Division
Magway Region ( my, မကွေးတိုင်းဒေသကြီး, ; formerly Magway Division) is an administrative division in central Myanmar. It is the second largest of Myanmar's seven divisions, with an area of . Pa Del Dam (ပဒ ...
, particularly in
Gangaw District, which comprises
Saw
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,
Htilin
Htilin ( my, ထီးလင်းမြို့, ; also spelt as Htilim
GeoNames or Htilin) is a town in Gangaw
Gangaw ( my, ဂန့်ဂေါမြို့, ) is a town of Gangaw Township in Gangaw District in the Magway Division in Myanmar. Gangaw is also known as the City of Yaw, a certain region in Myanmar including Gangaw (), Tilin (), Saw () an ...
. Yaw was classified as a "definitely endangered" language in
UNESCO
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's 2010 ''
Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
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.''
The Yaw dialect is very similar to standard Burmese except for the following rhyme changes:
References
{{Burmese language
Burmese language