Myeik dialect
The Myeik dialect, also known as Beik in Burmese, Mergui and Merguese in English, and Marit (มะริด) in Thai, is a divergent dialect of Burmese, spoken in Myeik, the second largest town in Tanintharyi Region, the southernmost region of Burma.[3] Myeik shares many commonalities with the Tavoyan dialect, although there are substantial differences especially with regard to phonology.[3]
| Myeik | |
|---|---|
| Mergui, Merguese | |
| Region | Southeast |
Native speakers | 250,000 (1997)[1] |
Sino-Tibetan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | merg1238[2] |
Phonology
Consonants
Myeik possesses 27 consonant phonemes:[4]
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar and palatal |
Velar and labiovelar |
Glottal | Placeless | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive and affricate | pʰ p b | tʰ t d t̪ | tɕʰ tɕ dʑ | kʰ k ɡ | ʔ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ɴ | ||
| Fricative | sʰ s z | h ɦ | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
Unlike Standard Burmese, the Myeik dialect does not have any preaspirated consonants.[5] Phonemes unique to the Myeik dialect include /ɦ/ and /t̪/.[5]
Notes
- Burmese at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Myeik". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Kato 2012, p. 118.
- Kato 2012, p. 119.
- Kato 2012, p. 120.
- Kato 2012, p. 121.
References
- Kato, Atsuhiko; Khin Pale (2012). "The Myeik (Beik) Dialect of Burmese" (PDF). Journal of Asian and African Studies. 83: 117–160.
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