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Taungyo

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.

They speak Taungyo (တောင်ရိုးစကား Tauñyoùs̱áḵà), a Tavoyan dialect of the Burmese language. Taungyo has 89% lexical similarity with standard Burmese, and is also closely related to Danu, Intha and Rakhine.

A sample of Taungyo dialect vocabulary include the following:

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