Taungyo

The Taungyo (တောင်ရိုး လူမျိုး Tauñyoù lumyoù) are a sub-ethnic group of the Bamar people living primarily in Shan State and centered on Pindaya.

Language
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:
 * red - anak (အနီ)
 * high - amrang (အမြင့်)
 * eye - myak-sai (မျက်စေ့)
 * light - lang (လင်း)