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Also, there are many loan words from Malay and Thai not found in Standard Burmese. In the Tavoyan dialect, terms of endearment , as well as family terms, are considerably different from Standard Burmese. The following is a list of rhyme correspondences unique to the Tavoyan dialect [7]. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tavoyan Dawei Region Southeast Ethnicity incl. Taungyo Native speakers. Language family. Glottolog 3. Retrieved 10 October Burma: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.
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This discrepancy points to both differences in classification schemes, but also perhaps highlights an expectation—common at least in the English-speaking world—that language and ethnicity should be nearly co-equal. Since the colonial era, indigenous ways of making sense of identity and community, which may or may not have been based on language, have been overtaken by a practice that the British introduced: equating language first with race, and later, as the idea of race evolved, with ethnic group. Such identifications come out of complex, incompletely understood historical and political contingencies. Looking at the larger overall picture, in whatever way Burmese dialect speakers think of themselves, their communities occupy a position near the top of local sociolinguistic hierarchies. Much scholarship has focused on the hierarchical interpersonal relations that are prominent features of lowland, court-based Southeast Asian societies. The idea of hierarchy is also useful for understanding how entire languages and their societies stand in relation to each other. In Burma, ethnicity is central to social organization, culture and politics. When the British arrived in the country in , they tried to make sense of the diversity they found. The categories of caste and religion, which they had used in India, were not useful for categorizing the people.
Marlar, Joint General Secretary - Myanmar. To speak out about equal opportunity, including of ownership of land and other forms of property. Here, land grabs happen frequently and serve to enrich the military and their cronies - the Tavoyan people are rarely sufficiently compensated and Special Economic Zones SEZs bring nothing but human rights abuses and environmental destruction.