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| Tavoyan | |
|---|---|
| Dawei | |
| Region | Southeast |
| Ethnicity | Bamar, incl. Taungyo |
Native speakers | (ca. 440,000 cited 2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tvn – Tavoyan propertco – Dawei Tavoyan (Taungyo) |
| Glottolog | tavo1242 Tavoyantaun1248 Taungyo |
Tavoyan or Dawei (ထားဝယ်စကား) is a divergent dialect of Burmese is spoken in Dawei (Tavoy), in the coastal Tanintharyi Region of southern Myanmar (Burma). Tavoyan speakers tend to self-identify as Bamar, and are classified by the Burmese government as a subgroup of the Bamar.[2]
Tavoyan retains an /-l-/ medial that has since merged into the /-j-/ medial in standard Burmese,[2] and can form the following consonant clusters: /ɡl-/, /kl-/, /kʰl-/, /bl-/, /pl-/, /pʰl-/, /ml-/, /m̥l-/. Examples include မ္လေ (/mlè/ → Standard Burmese /mjè/) for "ground" and က္လောင်း (/kláʊɴ/ → Standard Burmese /tʃáʊɴ/) for "school".[3] Also, voicing can only occur with unaspirated consonants in Tavoyan, whereas in standard Burmese, voicing can occur with both aspirated and unaspirated consonants.
Also, Tavoyan has many loan words from Malay and Thai not found in Standard Burmese.[4] In the Tavoyan dialect, terms of endearment, as well as family terms, are considerably different from Standard Burmese.
- ^ Tavoyan proper at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Dawei Tavoyan (Taungyo) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ a b McCormick, Patrick (Autumn 2016). "Hierarchy and contact: re-evaluating the Burmese dialects". IIAS. Retrieved 2024-12-10.
- ^ "Htarrwaalhcakarr bamarhcakarr" ထားဝယ်စကား ဗမာစကား (in Burmese). BBC Burmese. 20 May 2011. Archived from the original on 23 October 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ^ Census of India, 1901 – Burma. Vol. XII. Burma: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. 1902. p. 76.