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The Tavoyan or Dawei dialect of Burmese () is spoken in Dawei (Tavoy), in the coastal Tanintharyi Region of southern Myanmar (Burma). Tavoyan retains medial that has since merged into the medial in standard Burmese and can form the following consonant clusters: , , , , , , , . Examples include ( → Standard Burmese ) for "ground" and ( → Standard Burmese ) for "school". Also, voicing only with unaspirated consonants, whereas in standard Burmese, voicing can occur with both aspirated and unaspirated consonants. Also, there are many loan words from Malay and Thai not found in Standard Burmese. An example is the word for goat, which is ''hseit'' () in Standard Burmese but ''be'' () in Tavoyan, most likely from Mon () or Thai (แพะ). In the Tavoyan dialect, terms of endearment, as well as family terms, are considerably different from Standard Burmese. For instance, the terms for "son" and "daughter" are () and () respectively. Moreover, the honorific (Naung) is used in lieu of (Maung) for young males.〔 ==Rhymes== The following is a list of rhyme correspondences unique to the Tavoyan dialect kochanyou i 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tavoyan dialects」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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