Tavoyan dialects
The Tavoyan or Dawei dialect of Burmese is spoken in Dawei, in the coastal Tanintharyi Region of southern Myanmar.
Tavoyan retains medial that has since merged into the medial in standard Burmese and can form the following consonant clusters:,,,,,,,. Examples include for "ground" and 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 bê in Tavoyan, most likely from Mon or Thai .
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 is used in lieu of for young males.
Rhymes
The following is a list of rhyme correspondences unique to the Tavoyan dialect| Written Burmese | Standard Burmese | Tavoyan dialect | Notes |
| is pronounced as in standard Burmese |
| Open syllables | weak = ə full = i, e, ɛ, a, ɔ, o, u |
| Closed syllables | nasal = iːɴ, ɪɴ, aɪɴ, an, ɔɴ, ʊɴ, uːɴ, aoɴ stop = ɪʔ, aɪʔ, aʔ, ɔʔ, ʊʔ, aoʔ |