Taungyo
The Taungyo are a sub-ethnic group of the Bamar people living primarily in Shan State and centered on Pindaya.
Language
They speak Taungyo, 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:
- red - anak
- high - amrang
- eye - myak-sai
- light - ''lang''